ISO ON THE PRE-NORMAN SCULPTURED STONES OF DERBYSHIRE. 



the wall of the Bakewell porch. I have an impression that it 

 appealed to the Celtic imagination more strongly than to Anglians. 

 It is very curious that the abrupt termination of one band, to 

 which I have called attention, is a feature of most of the pillars 

 of this type. Indeed the whole subject of these pillars is 

 interesting and isolated ; I hope before long to publish them all. 



The fragment shown in Fig. 9, Plate XV., is in the porch at 

 Bakewell. It may represent the slaughter of the Innocents, or 

 possibly the beheading of the Baptist. The representation of 

 overthrow and destruction by showing the figure upside down, is 

 found in the " Irish " Psalter in the Library of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, where David has Goliath before him head downwards; 

 it is also found in its most remarkable form on the cross at 

 Gosforth, where a horse and his rider are shown in their ordinary 

 position and also in an inverted position. The fragment shown 

 in Fig. 10, Plate XV., will be a great surprise to students of the 

 patterns of sculptured stones. It has been supposed to be peculiar 

 to the Isle of Man and the corresponding coast of the mainland. 

 I have found it, however, in a very rude form, on a shaft at 

 Burnsall, on the Wharfe above Bolton. It came, probably, from 

 Roman pavements. The presence of this little bit of it at 

 Bakewell is a puzzle. 



The fragments shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of Plate XIII., 5 of Plate 

 XIV., and 1, 2, 3 of Plate XV., are all from Bakewell. With the 

 exception of the piece of diaper work (Plate XIV.), which is in Mr. 

 Bateman's grounds at Middleton, they are in the Bakewell porch. 

 They are graceful in themselves, and most of them have a bearing 

 on a question which has not, so far as I know, been considered 

 adequately, if indeed it has been considered at all. There are 

 several examples here and there of carefully sculptured stones 

 which are certainly not portions of shafts or sockets of crosses. 

 In some cases, as in the crypt at Lastingham, it is clear that the 

 stone, when in situ, was either part of a horizontal frieze or plinth 

 or string-course, or part of a vertical pilaster or band of ornament 

 running up a wall. In the case of a square flat stone at South 

 Church, Bishop Auckland, there can be almost no doubt that it 



