Christian monuments in England and Wales : an historical and descriptive sketch of the various classes of sepulchral monuments which have been in use in this country from about the era of the Norman conquest to the time of Edward the Fourth . INCISED SLABS at Brougham in Westmoreland; at Newton Bigney in Cumberland. been discovered another incised slab, apparently about half a cen-tury later, which is charged with a cross, a sword, and the letter B,all somewhat rudely With these slabs may be asso- 1 See Archceol. Journal, vol. iv. p. ,where will be found a most interestingpaper u
Christian monuments in England and Wales : an historical and descriptive sketch of the various classes of sepulchral monuments which have been in use in this country from about the era of the Norman conquest to the time of Edward the Fourth . INCISED SLABS at Brougham in Westmoreland; at Newton Bigney in Cumberland. been discovered another incised slab, apparently about half a cen-tury later, which is charged with a cross, a sword, and the letter B,all somewhat rudely With these slabs may be asso- 1 See Archceol. Journal, vol. iv. p. ,where will be found a most interestingpaper upon The Tombs of the De Brom-ham Family accompanied with illustra-tive engravings. The skeleton of SirUdard de Broham was discovered dur-ing the excavations rendered necessary forsome repairs in the chancel, lying cross-legged, about two feet below the circular shield is very rarely has a well-known plate of aneffigy, in which the warrior is represented with a circular shield, a sword, and aspecies of hammer or martel de fer: seeMonumental Effigies, plate 19. The otherslab at Brougham was discovered to beincised, upon reversing it: this was thecase also with a third slab in the samechurch. I may add, that Go
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