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on one of which is a 

 dated inscription, of 

 which an illustration 

 is here given. The 

 church also possesses 

 an Early English Font. 



"THE DEAD 



'OOMAN." 



Some of the motor- 

 ing members went to 

 inspect a weathered 

 stone (on the heath), 

 which appears to have 

 formed the base of a 

 boundary cross, but 

 which is locally konwn 

 by the above-men- 

 tioned title. 



Mr. ALFRED POPE, 

 F.S.A., as the author 

 of "The Old Stone 

 Crosses of Dorset," was 

 much interested in the 

 relic, and observed 

 that it was 18 or 20 

 inches square ; well 

 broached at the cor- 

 ners, thus making it 

 octagonal, and with a 

 socket hole nine inches 

 square in the top to 

 receive the tenon of 

 the shaft. As to the 

 popular name, there is 



