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inscription be of the same date as the cross (which is evidently 

 the case), then we have here (says Mr. W. C Borlase) a proof 

 that the interlaced ornamentation — the triguetra — in use in early 

 times in Ireland, Scotland, Man and Scandinavia, was in use in 

 Cornwall in the seventh or eighth century, and that the other 

 crosses of the same form may he assigned to the same period." 

 Anglo-Saxon letters are on the cross, but the language of the 

 Inscription is Latin. To this however it should be added that 

 not far off, by the roadside at Mawgan Cross, stands another 

 specimen displaying the crucifixion. Mr. Malan, in some notes 

 he had prepared, said this cross would be remarkable (in East 

 Cornwall) for containing the figure of the Saviour, were it not 

 that it is really a West Cornwall cross, brought from the manor 

 of Eoseworthy, in Grwinear. The crosses of the West, around 

 Hayle, are of one type, more or less, shewing the Irish influence 

 from early Irish saints who came to Cornwall ; those in the east 

 of the county shew the Welsh influence of the Welsh saints. 



After a short stay at Mawgan, the party returned in the 

 evening to Truro. 



