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were six nights and six resting-places, not seven, the procession 

 would go from Bradford to the Fosse Way near Colerne in one 

 day. Colerne itself is on a side road off the Fosse Way, on the 

 opposite side ; hut a halt on the Fosse Way half way between 

 Malmesbury and the point on the Fosse Way at which the road to 

 Colerne diverged, would be not far from Littleton Drew. If we 

 are entitled to take the eight mile stage as probably the last, so as 

 to give a longer way for the people of Malmesbury to walk by the 

 side of their benefactor through the last day of the mournful 

 journey, the resting-place next before Malmesbury would be less 

 distant from Littleton. We must remember that exceedingly fine 

 and splendid stone crosses, beautifully decorated, had been set up 

 among the northern Angles thirty and forty years before this time, 

 and we do not know any reason why Aldhelm's stone crosses should 

 not be highly decorated. I throw out the suggestion that when 

 evil times came and marauders went about the roads destroying 

 all they could reach, some of Aldhelm's bishop-stones were broken, 

 as we gather from William of Malmesbury had been the case, and 

 in a later but still Saxon time, the venerated fragments were carried 

 off to the churches nearest to the place where they had originally 

 stood. 



I shall be glad if in starting these three problems, and giving 

 some details towards their consideration, I have provided some of 

 those whom I address with that great blessing, something to think 

 about. 



Note on tjje Jtgttre of Eattlebotte at Stjerstott (EJjurrfj* 



This figure is certainly very old. I have consulted two friends 

 eminently qualified to express an opinion — as well qualified, 

 probably, as any two men in England. They have only seen the 

 photograph of the stone. So far as they can judge from the 

 photograph, one puts the date about 1100, the other holds that 

 the figure is of Anglo-Saxon date. Comparing it with the 

 examples we possess of figures of the Anglo-Saxon date, it may be 

 remarked that so far as I remember we have no statue of that 

 period. The examples are bold relief. Of bold reliefs, there is a 

 very striking Virgin and Child at Inglesham, in North Wilts. 



