ORNAMENT ON THE EAELY CROSSES OF CORNWALL. 77 



The shaft is divided into five panels; (1), at the top, a row 

 of four vertical beads, similar to those on the W. front, but 

 slightly curved at the top, below and touching tbe first three on 

 the W. side, are three more beads, and the space which other- 

 wise would have been occupied by them, had they been continued 

 like the top row, is filled with little holes, as well as the lower 

 portion of the panel. The remaining panels are quite plain, the 

 two top ones only being separated by a bead. Where these do 

 not exist, the division is formed by an incised line. 



In concluding my description of this interesting cross, I 

 would point out that it possesses characteristics which are found 

 on only three other crosses, viz., a boss and bead on the shaft; 

 a single boss at the neck ; and in addition, it affords the only 

 example of vertical bead ornament. The bead-work occurring 

 on the sides of the cross in Roche churchyard is placed 

 horizontally. 



THE CROSS IN SGORRIER GROUNDS, S. DAY.— Plate 7. 



Scorrier House is the seat of George Williams, Esq., D.L , 

 J. P. It is situated in the Parish of S. Day or 8. Dye, and 

 Deanery of Carnmarth, and is about one quarter of a mile from 

 Scorrier-gate Eailway Station on the Great Western Railway. 



The granite monolith formerly stood on the Eame tenement 

 (originally included in the Parish of S. Wendron), at the 

 junction of the road leading from Stythians to the Helston and 

 Penryn Road. The ground was heathland, and a noted Celtic 

 tumulus, since levelled, stood here. Rame has for generations 

 been the property of the Williams family. About the year 1849, 

 Mrs. Grace Williams, mother of Mr. Nicholas Williams (the 

 present occupier), sold the cross for £5 to John Michael 

 Williams, Esq., who removed it to the grounds at Scorrier, where 

 it still stands. A notice, and very incorrect drawing of this 

 cross is given in the Royal Institution of Cornwall Reports, 

 1849, plate IV. The drawing was copied in the following year 

 by F. C. Hingston in his "specimens" of ancient Cornish 

 Crosses, p. 35. This cross is stated by them to have stood "near 

 the Half Way House." 



