174 0N THE PRE-NORMAN SCULPTURED STONES OF DERBYSHIRE. 



is broken off. On the vertical side are remains of two rows of 

 saints, one holding up something in his or her hand. There used 

 to be at Bakewell another stone of this shape, but without the 

 vertical sides, with most remarkable ornamentation. It was taken 

 by Mr. Bateman for his collection at Lomberdale, and with the 

 rest of the stones he took from Bakewell Church it has been given 

 by Mr. Bateman's son, not to its own county of Derby, but to 

 the Weston Museum at Sheffield, and there these most valuable 

 relics now are. Mr. Bateman published an engraving of the stone 

 I am speaking of in his catalogue, and this engraving has been 

 reproduced by Dr. Cox (Vol. ii., plate ii.) It differs so 

 materially from the stone itself, that I show a rubbing of the 

 ornamentation as it is, omitting the two triangular ends (Plate XV.). 

 The animals on this stone are about as uncouth as animals can well 

 be. The hampering of their feet is managed in a very unusual 

 way, each leg branching off into two bands at the extremity, the 

 bands from the four feet forming a simple piece of interlacing- work 

 which ornaments the bottom of the panel. There is an animal 

 with two legs somewhat similarly hampered, at Meigle, in Perth- 

 shire. To one of the animals I desire to call particular attention, 

 because it is difficult to imagine anything it resembles except the 

 head and the trunk of an elephant or mammoth. It will be seen 

 that in the case of this animal, and of the creature next to it, I 

 have not been able to make out the whole figure. One hind leg 

 of the animal at the further end of the stone is gone. Here, as in 

 many other cases, it would have been perfectly easy to restore 

 the lost part in my illustration, but I have preferred not to do so. 

 There was another stone of this character in the county, but more 

 hog-backed than shrine-shaped, namely, at Repton ; a former 

 vicar, wishing to provide an economical door step for his dairy, 

 had the work tooled off and the stone cut to suit the purposes of 

 the dairy-maid. Stones of this character are well known in other 

 parts of the north of England, as for instance, at Heysham in 

 Lancashire, and at Bromptom in Yorkshire ; they occur also 

 at Hexham, Burnsall, and Kirkby Malzeard. 



I show a rubbing of another fragment from Bakewell (Plate 



