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there — especially in the Hutton font — the pair are more like 

 wrestlers. The Bradbourne fragment is a remarkably fine one ; 

 and here I have another suggestion for the Derbyshire Society. 

 This is not the only fragment in the Bradbourne churchyard, for, in 

 order to make a stile, the men of some past generation took 

 another fragment, covered with human figures and foliage scrolls, 

 and split it down the middle, and planted the two pieces to form 

 the two jambs of the stile. I feel quite sure that if a very small 

 effort were made, the parish would gladly accept two less valuable 

 and more suitable stones with which to form the stile, and the 

 present fragments might be put together in the parish, or might 

 even be given for the purposes of the Derby Museum. I may 

 remark, in passing, that the long array of sculptured animals 

 round the Norman doorway of the church of Bradbourne is the 

 best and far the most perfect that I have ever seen. A large- 

 sized photograph of this doorway should be taken. 



The great cross at Eyam is too well known to need description. 

 It is shown by Dr. Cox (Vol. ii., plate xii.), and I published an 

 engraving on a larger scale in the Magazine of Art for December, 

 1884, p. 82. Very fine photographs can be obtained from Mr. 

 Keene, of Derby. I show, by the extreme kindness of Mr. Hacking, 

 the vicar, to whom I desire to express my very warm thanks, a 

 rubbing of the head of this magnificent cross, and I do this 

 specially for the purpose of making a suggestion with regard to 

 the head of the Bakewell Cross, which, like the heads of all the 

 other crosses in the county, as far as I know of anything like this 

 period, except Eyam, is lost. It will be seen that the head of the 

 Eyam Cross would almost exactly fit on to the top of the 

 Bakewell shaft, and would be of most suitable proportions for 

 that shaft. The head and the arms at Eyam are, to my eye, a 

 good deal stunted, and the cross would have a better effect if the 

 keys of the arms were somewhat longer; but the actual size of the 

 arm is just what it ought to be for the Bakewell Cross. This 

 being so, it is very interesting to find that a fragment which 

 remains in the porch at Bakewell, and which on examination is 

 certainly a portion of the arm of a cross (Plate XII., where both 



