Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bristol. 281 
were six nights and six resting-places, not seven, the procession 
would go from Bradford to the Fosse Way near Colerne in one 
day. Colerne itself is on a side road off the Fosse Way, on the 
opposite side; but a halt on the Fosse Way half way between 
Malmesbury and the point on the Fosse Way at which the road to 
Colerne diverged, would be not far from Littleton Drew. If we 
are entitled to take the eight mile stage as probably the last, so as 
to give a longer way for the people of Malmesbury to walk by the 
side of their benefactor through the last day of the mournful 
journey, the resting-place next before Malmesbury would be less 
distant from Littleton. We must remember that exceedingly fine 
- and splendid stone crosses, beautifully decorated, had been set up 
_ among the northern Angles thirty and forty years before this time, 
_ and we do not know any reason why Aldhelm’s stone crosses should 
_ not be highly decorated. I throw out the suggestion that when 
- evil times came and marauders went about the roads destroying 
they could reach, some of Aldhelm’s bishop-stones were broken, 
_ as we gather from William of Malmesbury had been the case, and 
in a later but still Saxon time, the venerated fragments were carried 
off to the churches nearest to the place where they had originally 
stood. 
I shall be glad if in starting these three problems, and giving 
some details towards their consideration, I have provided some of 
those whom I address with that great blessing, something to think ’ 
srobably, as any two men in England. They have only seen the 
photograph of the stone. So far as they can judge from the 
the figure is of Anglo-Saxon date. Comparing it with the 
examples we possess of figures of the Anglo-Saxon date, it may be 
eriod. The examples are bold relief. Of bold reliefs, there is a 
ry striking Virgin and Child at Inglesham, in North Wilts. 
