A small carved stone figure of a hooded woman holding a child, seated on an integral rectangular plinth. The carving is simplified and frontal, the faces reduced to planes, and the back of the hood is incised with a row of angular letters cut straight into the stone. The surface is weathered with lichen staining in the recesses. The lettering is the part I cannot resolve. The characters are angular and cut with straight strokes only, which is the signature of alphabets designed to be carved rather than written: runic scripts avoid curves and horizontal lines because curves are hard to cut and horizontals disappear into wood grain. That does not make this runic. The same angular habit appears in modern decorative lettering and in the Tolkien derived alphabets that have been carved onto garden sculpture since the 1970s. I have not been able to read the inscription, and I will not assign it to a tradition the carving does not establish. Condition: intact with no breaks or repairs found