220 By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 



Archceological Journal, I., 354, and two others with crosses upon 

 them are figured in vol. III., p. 268, one of them at Repps (Norf.), 

 and the other at Bircham Tofts, in the same county. Of headstones 

 more examples are known. A cross supposed to be of Norman 

 date in Carlisle Cathedral is figured Arch. Journ., XII., 181, others 

 assigned to the 10th century were found at Cambridge Castle (Arch. 

 Journal, xii., 201) . Several headstones were also found built up in 

 the wall of Eauceby Church (Lines.), (Arch. Journ., X., &Z,figd.). 

 The largest collection, however, were found in the walls of Bakewell 

 Church (Derbys.), some of which are illustrated in Arch. Jo\irn. 

 IV., 56. One of these, a semicircular stone, has within a circle, a 

 cross much resembling the Trowbridge example.^ Headstones of 

 Pre-Norman date are also known. One in Warkworth Church, 

 Northumberland, is figured in Sculptured Stones of Scotland, \o\. II., 

 p. 42, PI. Ixxxii. I can, however, find no record of head, foot, and 

 body stones being found still in conjunction, so that we may 

 perhaps regard the Trowbridge example as unique in this respect. 

 As to its date, Mr. J. T. Micklethwaite, F.S.A., to whom I sub- 

 mitted the photographs, writes : — 



" Both your stones are curions ... I do not know anything like that 

 with the head and foot . . . It is not easy to tell from the picture, but I 

 suspect the coped stone is older than the 12th century . . . The stone 

 is an external monument, and that I think adds to the probability of its early 

 date." 



Mr. H. Brakspear, F.S.A., on the other hand, judging from the 

 photographs only and resting his opinion on the character of the 

 " Chipwork " diaper would date the coped stone late 12th century. 



Mr. C. E. Pouting, F.S.A., after examining the stones themselves, 

 writes : — 



"The sections of the plainer arcading on one side are of distinctly Pre- 

 Norman character, they are all different — two of them are very like the 

 pilasters and arches found in Saxon work. The other side of the stone has 

 no mouldings, only axed ornamentation on the arcading, which is more 



' Mr. Bi-akspear informs me that there are a number of Headstones at 

 Strata Florida, and that a stone at Bristol has ornament on it similar to that 

 of the coped stone. 



