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far from his own residence. For it seems to prove that 
Collingham is Gsetlingum, the place where St. Oswini 
was murdered, where his body rested for a time, and 
where a monastery was erected in expiation of the crime 
of Oswiu. The name, certainly, bears as great a resem- 
blance to that of Gsetlingum as Gilling, and, indeed, a 
greater, as the analogy of Cuneningum, also mentioned 
by Venerable Bseda, which is now Cuningham, shows ; but, 
indeed, the claim of Gilling to be regarded as the scene of 
these events seems to be quite set aside by the discovery 
of the true situation of Wilfarsesdun. 
During the reign of St. Oswini, the influence of the 
Scottish missionaries was predominant in Northumbria. 
Of the friendship between him and St. Aidan, Venerable 
Baeda gives us a beautiful story ; and Trumheri, the first 
Abbot of Gsetlingum, was educated amongst the Scots. 
So on this cross we observe only the ornaments, which I 
have supposed characteristic of the Irish School of Art ; 
scrolls and knots and monstrous animals, without any attempt 
to delineate the human figure. 
The next monument to which I shall direct attention, is 
one which I believe to have been executed not many years 
later, but under the influence of a different school. It is 
at Bewcastle in Cumberland, and has been already more 
than once referred to. It is of larger dimensions than that 
at Collingham can have been when perfect, being 14 feet 
6 inches high, and still stands in its original position, fixed 
in an irregular octagonal plinth. It presents on the western 
face, beneath an imperfect inscription, an effigy of St. John 
the Baptist, pointing with his right Jiand to the Lamb of 
God, whose symbol rests on his left arm ; then an inscrip- 
tion in Runes, in two lines, the names of Our Blessed Lord, 
-fGESSUS 
CRISTTUS, 
