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and that it was designed as a memorial of his predecessor, 
St. Cuthbert, is evident, for afterwards, when the monks 
of Lindisfarne were compelled, by the invasion of the 
Danes, to leave their monastery, and carried the body of St. 
Cuthbert with them, this cross accompanied them in all 
their wanderings ; and when they finally settled at Durham, 
it was set up in the cemetery there, where it continued until 
the sixteenth century, (the time of Leland,) who tells us 
that it was venerated by the Northumbrians as associated 
with the memory, not only of the saint who caused it to be 
made, but of St. Cuthbert also. 
Again, after mentioning the death of St. Acca, Bishop 
of Hexham, in the year 740, and his interment in the 
cemetery there, Simeon says, " two crosses of stone, 
" decorated with wonderful carving, were placed, one at his 
" head the other at his feet ; on one of which, to wit, that 
" which is at his head, there is an inscription to the effect that 
" he is buried there." These crosses, I believe, are still in 
existence, though both imperfect, and one in fragments. 
Again, William of Malmsbury describes two magnifi- 
cent monuments which existed in his day in the cemetery 
of Glastonbury Abbey, which he calls pyramids,* because, 
like all others of this class, they taper from the base to the 
summit, and had lost the crosses which once terminated them. 
He says, " Willingly would I explain, could I but ascertain 
" the truth, what is a mystery to almost every one, what those 
" pyramids mean, which, placed a few feet from the church, 
" stand on the border of the monks' cemetery. The loftier of 
" the two, and the nearer to the church, has five panels, and 
" is twenty-eight feet high ; this, threatening ruin from its 
" great age, has yet some features of antiquity which can be 
" plainly read, though not fully understood. In the highest 
" panel is an image in the habit of a bishop ; in the second a 
* In another account they are styled " obelisks." 
