. The Victoria history of the county of Cumberland. Natural history. REMAINS OF THE PRE-NORMAN PERIOD only with plaits of three strands. This is a step towards what we must next visit, the Giant's Grave at Penrith and the Gosforth cross. The Giant's Grave at Penrith as arranged at present has four hogbacks, and two crosses which are highly developed types of this second St. Bridget's monument. Both are of light grey sandstone. The western pillar stands 135 inches in height from the ground and measures a little over 5 feet in girth at about 3 feet from the bottom. For the height of 8i| inches i
. The Victoria history of the county of Cumberland. Natural history. REMAINS OF THE PRE-NORMAN PERIOD only with plaits of three strands. This is a step towards what we must next visit, the Giant's Grave at Penrith and the Gosforth cross. The Giant's Grave at Penrith as arranged at present has four hogbacks, and two crosses which are highly developed types of this second St. Bridget's monument. Both are of light grey sandstone. The western pillar stands 135 inches in height from the ground and measures a little over 5 feet in girth at about 3 feet from the bottom. For the height of 8i| inches it is , ''- . cylindrical; above that it has a band of interlacing, and higher up it is cut away into four flat panels with round bottoms filled with interlac- ing ; the head is small and broken but never had any wheel. The eastern pillar is 126 inches high, for 61 inches cylindrical, above which are similar panels 28 inches in height, like those on the western pillar, and filled with similar ring-plaits; but a cast of the western panel seen in a side light (necessary on account of the weathering which has nearly effaced the pattern) shows figures of a man intertwined with the plaits, another figure bending over him, and a beast above with head turned over its back. On the northern panel can be traced a stag. The head is free-armed, with a cross whose arms project through or from a ring with a boss in the middle of it, all carved in relief on the face ; and the lower limb of the bas-relief cross seems to have a boss in it, and to be in fact another example of the ' lorgnette.' So that as we have a survival of the Cumbrian school in the spirals of the Giant's Thumb with its wheel-head, we have a different survival of the same school in the Giant's Grave with its free-armed head, in spite of later characteristics in the interlacing and figures (of which more presently). This gives us a clue to the place of the Penrith group, which stands on the brink of the fully developed Irish-N
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