198 SOME MILTON ANTIQUITIES. 



The nave is suggested on the north side only by a wall five 

 feet long and an additional five feet of foundation laid. There 

 is no sign of a wall on the south side. 



The exterior of the east end of "The Ruins " is naturally the 

 most imposing portion of the building, as that was the part 

 which was chiefly intended to be seen. It is built higher than 

 any other portion, and on either side of the east window-arch is 

 a lofty octagonal pinnacle, with a large and curious "cross" 

 deeply incised (incised, apparently, when "the ruins" were 

 erected). It might be described : Between two batons, as 

 many taus, base to base, all palewise. The stone cross on 

 the highest central point of the Ja$ade has tumbled down, and 

 underneath the embattled work is a pierced trefoil above the 

 window-arch. The north pinnacle has a stone Latin cross on 

 its summit ; the top portion of the southern pinnacle is broken 

 off. 



" The Ruins " have considerably fallen to pieces since they 

 were erected, and the ivy has become so masterful that the 

 picturesque little building, amid the luxurious foliage around, is 

 scarcely ever noticed at a distance by those who do not know 

 of its existence. 



May it, however, long stand as one of the monuments of that 

 remarkable man who, though he destroyed a town, erected a 

 ruin ! 



MONASTIC BURIAL RELICS AT MILTON ABBEY. 



During Sir Gilbert Scott's restoration of the Abbey Church, 

 about 40 years ago, two graves were laid bare. 



The first grave, at the foot of the High Altar, contained the 

 skeleton of an Abbot, with six pieces of a wooden pastoral staff 

 and its crook (almost circular) and some other small fragments 

 of wood ; also several pieces of sandals and an iron buckle of a 

 girdle. The length of the six pieces of staff is 23 inches, and 

 the diameter of the crook is 2 inches. The widest part of the 

 sole of the sandals is 2} inches. 



