ANCIENT SCÜLPTUEED STONES. 121 



All of wliicli are confirmed by letters of that age, and 

 attesting the rank, worth, and positlon of the ladies here 

 commemorated. 



BEWCASTLE GROSS. 



The cross at Bewcastle is 14 ft. 6 in. high, and Stands In 

 its original position. The western face has in it a figure 

 of St. John the Baptist, pointing with his right hand to 

 the Lamb of God, whose symbol rests on his left arm. 

 Above this is an imperfect inscription ; below it another 

 in tAvo lines, in Eunic characters, containing the name of 

 our Blessed Lord : 



^ GESSUS 

 CMSTTUS 



with a majestic figure beneath in an arched recess, holdlng 

 a scroll in his hand, and giving his blessing with the right, 

 and trampling in Doemons, represented by swine. Then 

 follows the inscription in Kunic, in nine lines, seven only 

 of Avhicli are given in the account of it in the Archceological 

 Journal (see vol. xi., p. 130, 1854). The reading of the 

 nine lines is thus given by Mr. D. H. Haigh : 



►i«TniSSIGBEC 

 UNSETT^H 

 W^TREDEOM 

 G ^ K F (l w)* O L D 

 UiEPT^RBAR^ 

 UMBCYNING 

 ALCFKIDiEG 

 ICEGiEDHE 

 O S U M S A W L U M 



* Eead also, M B. 

 VOL. X., 1860, PART II. Q 



