A HISTORY OF CORNWALL 



A short list will suffice to illustrate the principal points to be noted 

 in connexion with the inscribed stones : 



(a) Ogam l inscriptions ; 2, both at Lewannick. 



(b) Inscriptions "written in horizontal lines, 3 ; Biscovey (now at Par), on both front and 

 back, Hayle, and Lewannick No. i. 



(c) Inscriptions preceded or followed by a Cross. These are very rare on the monuments 

 with debased Roman capitals only, an isolated example being found on the cross at Sancreed, 

 No. i. The remarkable position of this portion of an inscription seems to suggest that 

 the cross is a converted pillar stone. In inscriptions with mixed capitals and minuscules 

 they are much more common, and occur at Biscovey (front and back), Boslow, Cardin- 

 ham No. 2, Lanherne, Lanteglos by Camelford, Trevena, and on the Camborne altar 

 slab, No. I. 



(d) Ornamented crosses, 6 ; Cardinham No. 2, Lanherne, Penzance, Sancreed Nos. i and 

 2, and Trevena. 



(e) Ornamented cross-shafts, 3 ; Biscovey, Gulval, and Waterpit Down. 



(f) Cross-bases, 2 ; Lanhadron and Redgate, the latter has Celtic ornament on its three 

 other faces. 



(g) Altar slabs, 2 ; In Camborne Church, and at Pendarves ; both have key-pattern 

 borders. 



(h) Stones with a cross in relief, 3 ; Castle Dor, St. Clement, and Doydon. 



(i) Shafts with a mortice at the top (as if for the reception of some terminal), 4; Biscovey, 

 Castle D6r, Doydon, and Waterpit Down; the top of the rude pillar stone at Mawgan 

 Cross appears to have been roughly shaped as a tenon. It would be interesting to know 

 by what the stones at Castle Dor and Mawgan Cross were surmounted. The remainder 

 would probably have had a cross-head. 



(j) With the Chi-Rho monogram, 5. The number of stones bearing this symbol, which is 

 common in Italy and Gaul, is very small in Great Britain, only twelve examples being at 

 present known to exist, or to have existed. Five of that number, in fact all in England, belong 

 to Cornwall, 3 viz. : 



ENGLAND (CORNWALL) 



St. Endellion . . . On Doydon headland 



Phillack . . . .In gable of south porch of church 



St. Just in Penwith, No. I Found at St. Helen's Chapel, Cape Cornwall, now 



missing 



No. 2 In the church 

 South Hill . In the rectory garden 



SCOTLAND (WIGTONSHIRE) 



Stoneykirk . . .In the old burying ground of Kirkmadrine (two). 3 

 'A drawing of a third stone (at Stoneykirk) has been preserved by Dr. Mitchell, in the 

 Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, but the monument itself is unfortunately 

 either lost or destroyed.' 



Whithorne . . . Now preserved in the ruined church of St. Ninian. 4 



1 The Rev. W. Jago considers that the Worthyvale stone has Ogam characters upon it, but as they 

 merely consist of some three or four doubtful notches, and the edge of the stone above and below them 

 is quite clean, showing no further remains whatever, there does not seem to be very much foundation 

 for this theory, more especially since such an authority as Professor Rhys has described it to me as ' a 

 doubtful bit of Ogam.' 



* Since the above was written the author has found a small incised Chi-Rho monogram 4^ inches 

 high, and of the later form. It is cut on a jamb stone on the Norman south doorway at the church of 

 Lanteglos by Fowey. 



* Proe. Soc. Antlq. Scot, ix, 586. Stuart, Sculptured Stones of Scotland, ii, pi. Ixxi. 



* Proc. Soc. Anftq. Scot, ix, 578. Stuart, Sculptured Stones of Scotland, ii, pi. Ixxviii. See also J. R. 

 Allen, Early Christian Monuments of Scotland (1903), 495, figs. 532, 533, 534. 



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