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executed, and withal, with such simplicity and clearness as to 
make it a book, which, unlike many on such subjects, may be read 
with pleasure by all. 
Of Anglo-Saxon date we have not so much to occupy us 
as is afforded by some other districts in England. We have no 
cemeteries like those of Kent, rich in goldsmith’s work of high 
artistic merit, or of Hast Anglia, with their sepulchral urns, weapons, 
implements and ornaments. Yet we are not without objects 
of deep interest of those times. We have the remarkable crypt 
at Hexham, almost a repetition of one in Ripon Cathedral, cer- 
tainly of Bishop Wilfrith’s building,* and near to which was 
discovered, in 1832, a large quantity of Northumbrian money, 
some thousand stycas of the kings LHanred, Ethelred, and 
Redulf, and of the archbishops Eanbald and Vigmund; we have 
also several fragments of crosses of Anglo-Saxon date and work, 
especially two almost complete ones at Aycliffe, the monk’s 
stone near Tynemouth,} and portions of two or three at Hexham.t 
Some remains of what has been called Anglo-Saxon architecture 
exist at Norton, Billingham, Monk Wearmouth, Jarrow, Oving- 
ham, Bywell St. Andrew’s, Corbridge, Whittingham, and other 
places, but it is impossible to say decidedly whether these remains 
are of pre-Norman times, certainly if not of a date before 
1066, they are of one very soon after. A few scattered burials 
of the Anglo-Saxon period have been discovered; one, a cemetery, 
supposed to have been attached to a monastic body at Hartle- 
pool, where, with the skeletons, were found several remarkable 
grave-stones, with the names of the persons interred engraved 
upon them, in some cases inrunes; another at Castle Eden, with 
which occurred a glass vase of curious shape and make, specimens 
of which have been also found in Kent and Gloucestershire, and 
in a Frankish place of interment at Selzen near Mayence; another 
at East Boldon, with which was found a bronze pendant article, 
* Wilfrith, consecrated Bishop of York, a.D. 664, was a great church builder. He 
restored the church which Paulinus had built at York, covering the roof with lead, and 
filling the windows with glass, till then unused in England. He built also the churches at 
Ripon and Hexham; both extraordinary works for that time. 
t Probably one of the boundary stones of the Anglo-Saxon sanctuary. 
t It is quite possible that the two fragments, in the possession of Mr. Fairless, are por- 
tions of the crosses which stood at the head and foot of the grave of Acca. 
