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interlacing on each arm of the cross ; this doubtless refers to 
the Sun in the centre of the universe ; the opposite side 
has a similar device, but slightly indicated, and the bands 
harmonise with the astronomic figure before described upon 
the western face of the pillar. 
I consider that the cross was placed upon this pillar as upon 
those of Ireland, Iona, Wales, &c, and it has been stated 
that similar crosses exist as Monastic in the Crimea. 
I have not ventured any theory as to the age of this pillar, 
and I cannot find any allusion whatever to Christianity, such 
as appears on many of the later Irish crosses, but there are 
evidences of the Egyptians, Jews, Druids, Greeks, and 
worshippers of the Sun. 
With regard to inscriptions, many of those in Ireland 
have had names incised upon them, frequently in such posi- 
tions as to throw a doubt on their connexions with the original 
devices of the crosses, some of which existed long before the 
orate were introduced, and were cut in ignorance of the 
hieroglyphic legends, intended, like their prototypes of 
Egypt, to be intelligible only to the initiated and learned, 
before the demotic or common letters were used. 
I have recently seen the beautiful cross at Nevern, near 
to Newport, in Pembrokeshire, where the interlacings assimi- 
late to those of the Leeds Cross, as it has been named ; or 
it may possibly resemble more closely the interlacings of 
some of the six other crosses, fragments only of which 
were discovered, previous to my announcement in the Leeds 
Philosophical Hall, which occasioned their disappearance 
from the vestiges of the Old Parish Church. 
These fragments were of various dimensions, and one of 
them had a Runic inscription, a portion of which was upon 
the only fragment discovered. 
On carefully examining the margins of the panels or bands 
which separate them, there does not appear the least indica- 
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