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reversed, perhaps to secure extra stability for his work. At any 

 rate, whatever his object may have been, he has carved much 

 of this font with designs upside down. 



I" Fig- 5' which shows the south side, we see in the upper 

 row an inverted uncharged shield on the left; then, working 

 round to the north side, are a blank panel, a panel filled with 

 a mass of foliage and — not shown in Fig. 5 — a human head and 



Fig. 4. — Bakewell (faces 5, 6, 7, 



shoulders, the person depicted points with his right arm to an 

 open book on the other side of the panel ; then follow another 

 uncharged shield and a three-light piece of Decorated period 

 tracery. All this row is upside down like that beneath, which 

 contains foliage, of a kind, all the way round, save under the 

 uncharged shield, which is on the reverse side to that shown 

 in the photo ; here is a square panel, which contains sixteen 



