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Cealca ceaster

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1 Cealca ceaster

gen. ceastre; f. The chalk city. Camden thinks it is Tadcaster, in Yorkshire; idem, ut opinatur clarus Camdenus, quod hodie Tadcaster in agro Eboracensi, sic olim vocatum a ealce ibidem copiose effossa, Som. Ben. Lye. cealca ceaster
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚳᛠᛚᚳᚪ ᚳᛠᛋᛏᛖᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Lye.
Lye's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Som.
Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
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