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having, as argued by the Rev. J. Quine, been removed 

 after the dissolution (1541), when the furniture, orna- 

 ments, and building materials 

 ^-~ — _ were sold and scattered. A small 



J\ vaulted passage, left standing at 

 \ \ what must have been the west end 

 of the Church, may, Gumming 

 thought, have been connected 

 with the crypt. On one of the 

 key- stones of the arch is a socket 

 for the suspension of a hook, 

 perhaps for a corpse-light. Traces 

 of inhumation have been met with 

 in one corner. In this vault have 

 been gathered a few carved stones 

 and other relics recently re- 

 covered ; also a fine coffin-lid, of 

 which the exact original site is 

 unknown. It is of thirteenth 

 century work, and of interest as 

 being the oldest stone monument 

 of English or Gothic architecture 

 in the Island, and, as marking the 

 end of the old type illustrated by 

 the Celtic and Scandinavian 

 carvings referred to above. It 

 may have been the tomb of Olave 

 the Black, who was buried here in 

 1237, or of his son Reginald, 1248, 

 or, even more probably, of the last 

 Norwegian King of Man, Magnus, 

 buried in the Abbey in 1265 

 (fig. 43). 

 A square tower remains at the entrance to the Abbey 





