. The Victoria history of the county of Cumberland. Natural history. A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND marking time. In Cumberland, dials of a similar kind, carved on the flat surface of a wall with south aspect, and so rudely done that they must have been very insufficient for any but the roughest calculations, are found at Caldbeck, Torpenhow, Great Salkeld, Kirkoswald, and Newton Arlosh churches, and two at Dearham and four at Isel. The late Rev. W. S. Calverley, , whose researches have added so much to our knowledge of pre-Norman art in Cumberland, thought that all these dials were pre-Norman
. The Victoria history of the county of Cumberland. Natural history. A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND marking time. In Cumberland, dials of a similar kind, carved on the flat surface of a wall with south aspect, and so rudely done that they must have been very insufficient for any but the roughest calculations, are found at Caldbeck, Torpenhow, Great Salkeld, Kirkoswald, and Newton Arlosh churches, and two at Dearham and four at Isel. The late Rev. W. S. Calverley, , whose researches have added so much to our knowledge of pre-Norman art in Cumberland, thought that all these dials were pre-Norman in date, and that where they are found in mediaeval walls they had been removed from Anglo-Saxon churches and rebuilt into later work ; but it would be safer to say that they are pre-Norman only in type, not in date. It has been held by good authorities of the last generation that the Bewcastle cross should be dated tenth or eleventh century because the ornament resembles Carlovingian art ; but the general opinion in more. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wilson, James, Vicar of Dalston. Westminster [A. Constable and company, limited]
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