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On Fragments of a Savon Cross Shaft, found 
at Atlinety, and Saxon Silver Ornament 
from Gricklade. 
By Tue Rev. E. H. Gopparp. 
Rev. W. Butt, Vicar of Minety, near Malmesbury, to 
certain carved stones which had lately been discovered 
there, of which he sent me drawings. The curious circumstances 
‘under which they came to light are described in Mr. Butt’s letter 
thus :— 
a UST at the end of 1898 my attention was called by the 
“The stones came out from the foundation of our chancel when it was under- 
pinned by the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester two years ago. Scores of cartloads 
of rough stones were taken out and broken up small for concrete. Though 
constantly with the men who were getting the stones out, and looking on at the 
breaking of them up, I saw no worked stone from first to last. But this is no 
wonder, for the stones were covered with a most adhesive clay, which would not 
come off till the stones were broken small and then washed. All the stones were 
not used; three or four cartloads remained, and these I had thrown up in a heap 
near the Church, ready to use in or about the Church or churchyard, and by some 
chance a dozen or so of them got brought up to my house. I was not aware of 
this, and was about to put these stones to a secular purpose, when my eye suddenly 
caught sight of the carving on one of the smaller pieces. Its value struck me in 
a moment, and when on turning the rest over—a couple of barrows full or so—I — 
found another small piece, I enquired where the stones had come from. On being 
told that they were some which had come from the Church, I had the large heap, 
before referred to, turned most carefully over, in fact I personally examined every © 
single stone. We only found, however, the large stone. Of course it is more 
than probable that many similar carved stones were among those taken out from 
the foundations-and broken up—more is the pity of it.” 
Mr. Butt. afterwards most kindly sent me the three stones, so 
that I am able to describe them here. Plaster casts of them have 
also been taken and placed in the Society’s Museum. 
