ORNAMENT ON THE EARLY CROSSES OF CORNWALL. 61 



inch, and a half to three inches from centre to centre. Two 

 crosses are entirely decorated with these holes. One is on 

 Connor Down (Gwinear), and the other in Penzance Market 

 Place. The only difference being that in the former case they 

 may best be described as being placed " anyhow," while in the 

 latter, they are arranged in regular rows, in panels. 



Now with regard to these little holes or dots, some author- 

 ities consider them to be the setting out points of interlaced 

 patterns previous to the execution of the work, — but I have 

 already shewn in my article on this subject what method was 

 most probably employed at this stage of the operation. What 

 might be taken as an example in favour of the above theory, is 

 found on the unfinished cross-shaft in the church of S. Just in 

 Penwith, at one end of it is a square panel containing a knot 

 formed by two oval rings, combined with two concentric circles 

 all interlaced. At the other end is some partly completed 

 debased plaitwork, and the remaining portion of the stone, in 

 the middle, is marked out with holes at regular intervals, but 

 they are much larger and further apart than is usual. Mr. E. 

 P. Loftus Brock, F.S.A., informed me that he had seen other 

 stones in a similar condition, as if it had been intended ultimately 

 to finish the ornament. On the other hand I am of opinion, 

 that in Cornwall at least, where they occur in such close 

 proximity to each other, and are even used as a back ground, 

 no further development was intended, more especially as the 

 effect produced by them alone is often very rich. 



I have at present found only one incised example of our 

 Lord's figure. It is on a small wheel cross in Trevu grounds, 

 (Camborne), and was found about 1882, in the hedge by the 

 side of the old Poman road from Penzance to London, which 

 runs at the back of Trevu. The figure is extremely rude and 

 the feet have either been omitted or have disappeared. On the 

 back of the stone is a Greek cross in relief with expanded 

 arms. Mr. Poberts, the gardener, who discovered it, informed 

 me that when it was taken out of the hedge, a small bronze 

 image was found about three inches high. It consisted of a 

 woman with a child on her lap, the head of the former was 

 unfortunately gone. The figures were probably intended to 

 represent the Virgin and Child. 



