170 ON THE PRE-NORMAN SCULPTURED STONES OF DERBYSHIRE. 



who knows the magnificent cross at Ruthwell, in Dumfriesshire, 

 need be told where to look for a graceful original of the 

 Bakewell squirrel. At the very bottom of the cross is a curious 

 semi-circular piece of ornament, below which the stone seems 

 to have been broken, or to have come to an abrupt end. There 

 is a corresponding semi-circle at the bottom of the great frag- 

 ment of a shaft at Bradbourne (Plate XIII.), and it had seemed 

 to me that this probably represented a bow, the man drawing 

 it being on a part of the stone which is lost. I found in the 

 Weston Museum, in Sheffield, the cast of a portion of a 

 magnificent shaft, the original of which is in a garden near, 

 of which I show the front, &c. (Plate XIII.) In details and size 

 it is remarkably similar to those at Bakewell and Bradbourne, 

 and here we have a beautifully designed and executed man, 

 in a kneeling position, holding a bow, to which he is fitting an 

 arrow. It is interesting to find a theory, formed on the 

 fragments at Bakewell and Bradbourne, so entirely confirmed 

 by the complete base of the cross at Sheffield. On a stone 

 found at Bishop Auckland (Plate XII.), there is a man drawing 

 a bow, and taking aim at an animal involved in a scroll. The 

 head-dress of this man, which is beautifully executed, and the 

 hair on the top lip, point to the style adopted by the late 

 Saxon dandies. This idea, however, was continued into Norman 

 times, for you have it on the pillars at the west front of Lincoln, 

 and also on the alternate pillars of the Norman door of the 

 little old church at Steetley. On the back of the Bakewell cross, 

 as on the front of the Bradbourne cross, is — or in the former 

 case rather was — a large representation of the crucifixion. 



Another subject on the back of the Bakewell cross, now almost 

 entirely defaced, is probably the Salutation, for there is a sculpture 

 on a stone at Chester-le-street which seems to represent the 

 Salutation and almost exactly reproduces such features as are 

 left on the Bakewell stone. A subject much the same is found on 

 the fonts of Hutton Cranswick * and Cowlam, in Yorkshire, but 



* The Hutton Cranswick font, which it is difficult to believe of so late a 

 style as the Norman, was rescued some years ago by Canon Raine, and 

 placed in the York Museum. 



