212 The Norman Tympanum of Little Langford Church. 



on the r. [The legend is] Hoc : Aldelmus : ago : quod presens : 

 signat : imago." 



I know nothing about seals, but it is odd, that, if the central 

 figure is that of any other abbot than Aid helm, that the legend 

 should run " Hoc Aldelmus ago? Does it not rather point to the 

 central figure being Aldhelm ? If so, the small head at the left of 

 the seal may represent Maildubh, the founder. It is a slight con- 

 firmation of this, that the small head on the left of the seal is not 

 mitred. Now Maildubh was rather a hermit than an abbot,and that 

 Aldhelm was made abbot by the Bishop of the Diocese, Leutherius, 

 is stated by William of Malmesbury (Bishop of Bristol, aS^. Aldhelm, 

 p. 76). 



