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cross was much firmer than at the eastern one, where it was a very 
gruesome mixture of fragmentary bones and loose earth, which 
had evidently sunk under the weight of the cross, the socket-stone 
of which is ten inches lower than that of the western cross; and if 
any other proof of the modern re-erection of the monuments is 
needed, it is afforded by the fact that the eastern cross is socketed 
into a rough square block of local soft red freestone the same as 
the church ; all other parts of the crosses and hogg-backs, as also 
the large round socket-stone of the western cross, are of white or 
flesh-coloured stone from Blencow or Lamonby. ‘The eastern 
cross has evidently been broken off from its original socket-stone, 
and re-set in the modern socket-stone in a rough and ready way 
by tapering the end to fit a hole much too small to receive the 
entire pillar—a slovenly bit of work which the original erectors of 
the crosses would have been ashamed of. 
Both Bishop Nicolson and Dr. Todd have left it on record 
that the Giant’s Grave was “before the great north door of the 
church”—of the old church. Both these great authorities recount 
the since often-recited romance, of the mighty hunter of Inglewood 
Forest, and his boars; and both dismiss the tradition, each being 
in favour of an hypothesis of his own. The Bishop thinks that 
the “two pyrimidal stones” and ‘‘the several segments of circular 
stones erected betwixt them,” have ‘‘been erected on no other 
design than for an ornament (such as it is) to the porch before 
which they stand.” Dr. Todd’s idea was that the stones were put 
there to rest the bodies of the dead while the souls of the departed 
were being prayed for. Both ideas were crude, and unworthy of 
the learned authors. It evidently did not occur to them that the 
monument might be a few centuries older even than the old 
church itself, and that the church might have been brought to the 
giant’s grave, and not the grave to the church. If the giant’s grave, 
as we see it, was before the north door of the church, the door 
must have been considerably further east than north doors usually 
were placed, which was generally near the west end of the church, 
in fact about the position of the present north door. From all 
these facts, I am inclined to think that before the rebuilding of 
