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English: Anglo-Saxon dedication stone from Odda's Chapel, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, displayed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

It is a limestone slab, inscribed in Latin in AD 1056.

The stone was found near Deerhurst in 1675. Its Ashmolean Museum number is AN1896-1908 M 300.
Date 1056
date QS:P571,+1056-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q636400
Accession number
AN1896-1908.M.300
Inscriptions
((crux)) Odda dux iussit hanc / regiam aulam construi / atque dedicari in hono / re s(anctae) Trinitatis pro anima ger / mani sui Aelfrici qu(a) e de hoc / loco as(s) u(m) pta Ealdredus vero / ep(i) s(copus) qui eande(m) dedicavit II idi / bus Ap(r) il(ibus) XIIII aute(m) anno{s} reg / ni Eadward(i) regis Angloru(m)
[Earl Odda ordered this royal church to be built and dedicated in honour of the Holy Trinity for the soul of his brother Ælfric which was taken up from this place. And Ealdred was the bishop who dedicated the same on the second of the Ides of April and in the fourteenth year of the reign of Edward, King of the English [12 April 1056].][1]
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  1. ↑ http://latininscriptions.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/xml/AN_1896-1908_M_300.xml

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