ON THE PRE-NORMAN SCULPTURED STONES OF DERBYSHIRE. I 73 



showed a number of rubbings* of cross heads from Yorkshire, 

 from crosses which have been more fortunate than that at Bakewell, 

 to give an idea of the beauty and quaintness of the cross heads 

 of our early forefathers. One of the heads 1 showed, has, I believe, 

 not been described anywhere since its discovery in 1795 was 

 announced in the Gentleman's Magazine. At any rate the clerk of 

 the church, who has been there as clerk for 67 years, had never 

 seen it when I got this rubbing last year. It is at Cropthorne, 

 in Worcestershire, and it is the only instance I know of anything 

 like this kind of stone so far down in England. Another cross 

 head which I showed, from Bilton, in Yorkshire, has a little 

 man in each of the four keys of the cross, holding his hands 

 above his head. The men in the arms of the cross are of course 

 horizontal, and the man at the top of the cross is head downwards. 

 Each with one of his extended hands clutches the hand of the 

 man in the neighbouring key, and in this way the four pairs of 

 arms form a pretty quatrefoil, and the men's heads — of a triangular 

 shape — meet the boss in the centre of the cross. Other 

 heads which I showed, one or two of them all but completely 

 perfect, and all ornamented with interlacing bands, triquetrse, and 

 so on, were from Brompton, Kirby Moorside, and other places 

 in Yorkshire. 



There are at Bakewell the remains of a shrine-shaped stone, 

 very much the shape of the shrine of St. Sebald, at Nuremberg, 

 i.e., with vertical sides, slanting roof, and gable ends, like a little 

 house with a ridge roof. I show on Plate XIII. the remains of 

 the ornamentation of this stone. On one side of the roof there 

 occurs pretty interlacing work, with tendrils, and so on ; on the 

 other side of the roof, the remains of a horse or ass, an angel, and 

 a man holding what appears to be a pilgrim's gourd ; if it is so, it 

 is a most interesting example, but it is conceivable that it may be 

 meant for a lantern. This subject most probably represents the 

 flight into Egypt. The void space between these two parts of the 

 ornaments shows the amount of the upper part of the ridge which 



* These are not shown in the Plates. 



