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in the borders of the marble mosaic floors lately laid in the chancel 
of our parish church, illustrating forcibly the oft-quoted sentiment, 
that, “‘a thing of beauty is a joy for ever.” 
It is intended to re-erect* the old cross upon a suitable pedestal 
near the place where people have been accustomed to see it; and 
from its improved appearance, when so elevated, it will probably 
become better known as the Old Churchyard Cross than as the 
Giant’s Thumb. 
* Since this paper was read the old cross has been re-erected on a pedestal 
bearing the inscription: ‘‘Re-erected on new base. Carved designs reproduced 
from the cross. 1887.” The carved designs are the running scroll and the 
interlaced ring and band pattern. These patterns, all but obliterated by the 
hand of time, and requiring the eye of faith to see them in the old cross, have 
been curiously indirectly confirmed by excavations just made at the sides of the 
famous hog-backed stones of the Giant’s Grave, by which these very patterns 
have been brought to light in a most perfect state of preservation. 
