From 1900 to 1903, Francis Joseph Bigger and Herbert Hughes published a series in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology called, "Armorial Sculptured Stones of the County Antrim." This is a valuable record and includes transcriptions of many headstones which are now lost or unreadable. However, I have come to the conclusion that the series was never completed...
In the first article published in Volume 6 (starting page 39), Bigger and Hughes wrote:
During the summer of 1899 we have been able to visit all the churchyards in the county, and to make rubbings of the arms on the tombstones in each, and at the same time to copy the inscriptions ... When we came to make up the total number of arms copied, we found they reach over 250, which we are satisfied is vastly more than any other county in Ireland
Today I worked through all the articles to compile an index for my own use. The last installment I can find is in Volume 9 (ending page 137). However, this ends with "to be continued", plus the total number of transcriptions I've counted is just 171.
So I'm wondering if anyone knows whether the series was continued elsewhere, or do unpublished notes survive somewhere?
