96 ORNAMENT ON THE EARLY CROSSES OF CORNWALL. 



reference to those who are inclined to pursue this interesting 

 study. It is because I have felt the subject to be one so im- 

 portant that I have spent so many months in attempting to 

 provide something like a reliable work on the Crosses of 

 Cornwall. 



For any inadvertent inaccuracies in the information I have 

 given, I can but ask the indulgence of my readers. Should the 

 methods I have adopted commend themselves to those who share 

 my interest in the crosses, I hope at a time not far distant, to 

 produce a more complete work, my aim being, not only to deal 

 with the ornamentation, but to give a full classification of the 

 stones themselves, the whole fully illustrated. 



To all who have followed me in the outlines I have given, 

 the desire to supply all that remains will be at once appreciated. 

 For myself, any further time or labour will be willingly spent 

 in pursuing the subject, and in collecting the necessary material 

 for completing a volume on the early " Christian Monuments of 

 Cornwall," of which, we, as Cornish folk, may well be so justly 

 proud. 



