Magna Brittanica; being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain . \- FlUAN AND ElLBVATIO.^ OF THE SA>:D35ArH CROSSES, The pari ntnf remaJnmci w the Markft Sandbar/i^i in M£(jerwns bfinq at ti ti(UJ, beJj^it- Sotitihach ?t Fraqmejir in the Srrcee ot^ SandbacJi.— Q. FroA^nient dnp up in the Wtirl-er J*?/nv. SWO:-R15 OT HUGH 1,T:FTUS,EA3R]L OF CHE §Ti:U,]PlR]ES]E]KV]EXi) IK THE BMJTISH MlTSEU»fii. The Silt St part of the filadf of rhe same size as rhe Onainal 2>. The Inscription on the opp
Magna Brittanica; being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain . \- FlUAN AND ElLBVATIO.^ OF THE SA>:D35ArH CROSSES, The pari ntnf remaJnmci w the Markft Sandbar/i^i in M£(jerwns bfinq at ti ti(UJ, beJj^it- Sotitihach ?t Fraqmejir in the Srrcee ot^ SandbacJi.— Q. FroA^nient dnp up in the Wtirl-er J*?/nv. SWO:-R15 OT HUGH 1,T:FTUS,EA3R]L OF CHE §Ti:U,]PlR]ES]E]KV]EXi) IK THE BMJTISH MlTSEU»fii. The Silt St part of the filadf of rhe same size as rhe Onainal 2>. The Inscription on the opposite side of r/ie Jiiade . CHESHIRE. 461 CTidently belonged to the Oulton fragmem, and aftbided an opportunity ofaJcertaining what had been the height of this crofs, or o1)ehik (fee the annexedplate of the elevation fig. 6). The height was undoubtedly eighteen feet, andif the top was circular, as it feems to have been, it muft have meafured aboutthree feet mora ; making the whole, including the bafe and platform, nearlytwenty-five feet, which conliderably exceeds that of any crofs now (landing Inthis country ; from the rudenefs of its fculpture, it fecms to have as great a claimto antiquity, as any one which has been noticed ; and may be referred to a periodnot long fubfequent to the hitroduQion of Chridianity among our Saxon an-ceftors. ^ The crofs fupported by four piHars, (landing at Lymm,
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