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vvith these inscriptions — CENTAVINe, hedde episcopus, 

 & BREGOKRED & BEORWALDE." Norgret, Bregorred, 

 Berthwald, were Abbots. "What these mean I cannot 

 positively determine, but I suspect that tlie bones of those 

 whose names are here inscribed are lodged within in hoUow 

 stones (i.e. stone coffins). Logwor is certainly tlie person 

 from whom Logweresbeob was anciently named, now 

 called Montacute. [Bregwen, from whom BrentacnoUe, 

 now Brentamerse.] Beorwakle was abbot after Hem- 

 gisel." * 



The author describes only one slde of each monument, 

 and Mr. Haigh therefore conjectures " that on whlch there 

 were Images, and that, like the Bewcastle cross, they had 

 figm-es on one side only, and on the other knots and scroUs 

 which the historian did not think necessary to mention/^ 

 This is the case also with one of the Grosses at Hexham, 

 which has scrolls on three sides, and on the fourth the 

 crucifixion, with traces of an inscription beneath.f The 

 inscription on the larger monument was in Anglo-Saxon, 

 and contained Anglo-Saxon names, Wulfred and Eanfled, 

 and others. Two are of historical interest, and enable us 

 to determine the date of the erection of these monuments, 

 viz. the commencement of the eighth Century. Centwine 

 was king of the West Saxons from A.D. 676 to a.D. 685, 

 when he became a monk, and lived some years afterwards, 

 St. Aldhelm intimates that he died A.D. 688. Hedde was 

 bishop of Dorchester from A.D. 676 to A.D. 705. Beorn- 



* Gough's Camden, vol. i., p. 82. See also, Paj;er on Fragments of 

 Grosses discovered at Leeds, in 1S38." 



t A fine but stiflly carved Saxon cross was lately found among the 

 remains of St. Mary's Churcb, Hexhara. Dilston and Spital also yield such 

 specimens. At Warden is a remarkablo Saxon headstone, imitating the 

 front of a Eoman altar. See Gen. Mag., Oct. 18G0, pp. 401, 402. 



