A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND 
with ‘lorgnettes,’ now much broken, and debased interlacing, pellets, 
spirals and rude key-pattern. 
Key patterns are rather rare in Cumberland on these later crosses. 
The fragment from Mr. Rowley’s house at Glassonby, now in Tullie 
House Museum, has a band of double alternate TLTL, as on the Maen- 
y-Chwyfan and in crosses at Chester and St. Vigean’s. Single bands 
of T’s occur in Cheshire, Wales and Cornwall, and in a grave-slab at 
Clonmacnois, Ireland, dated 931 a.p. The other sides of the Glassonby 
Tue Sranpinc Cross, St. Bess. 
shaft have a rude figure and a dragonesque interlacing, and the whole is 
evidently Scandinavian of the earlier type (that is, not of the fine school 
of Gosforth), perhaps tenth century. The ‘Norse cross’ at St. Bees 
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