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mals, which are fuppofed to allude to the above, 
or to fome other material circumftance relative to» 
Scottifh’ hiftory, I cannot at prefent be brought to 
believe any of them to have been erected at the 
time when any Norwegian, Danifh, or Iceland- 
ifh invafion took place in Scotland: the work- 
manfhip befpeaks the execution of a later 
period. The knots, foliage, and grotefque 
imagery, in a great degree, correfpond with the 
embellifhments of the Penrith and Nithsdale 
pillars; and I judge them to be nearly of the 
fame date, of the fourteenth century. When 
this ftyle was firft introduced, I cannot fay with 
certainty ; but I have frequently feen it exhibited 
in old houfes, the fcreens of burying chapels in 
churches, and ornaments in books of fo low a 
date as the fixteenth century. 
_ There is a crofs remaining on the fpot where 
the battle of Hedgley Moor, in Northumberland, 
was fought, in the reign of King Henry the 
Sixth. "The fhaft is entire, and is filled with 
the bearings of the Percy family, and their 
alliances ; the capital at prefent. has the form of 
a fleur de lis, having perhaps been, broken, like 
the croffes at Penrith. This proves, that croffles 
were fometimes erected as military monuments. 
The broken capital of another crofs, with fome 
remains of fculpture, lies alfo in the Park op- 
pofite to Alnwick Caftle, on the fpot where 
Malcolm Canmore, King of Scotland, is faid 
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