Bransdale West Guide Stone GS1

Guide Stone at SE 61204 95435 - Close up of markings on east face, image taken April 2014. Hayes in his 1988 publication “Old Roads and Pannierways in North East Yorkshire” page 41 says this inscription reads ‘This Kirby Road’ (Kirkbymoorside). Well I can’t see the word ‘This’ at all and there is no indication that it was ever there. ‘Kirby’ is clear enough as for the word underneath I can only see that it says ‘road’ with a lot of imagination and using the same vivid imagination I can see that it could possibly also read ‘moor’ as in Kirkbymoorside. However the reality is, it is very difficult to decipher.