. Some accounts of the Bewcastle cross between the years 1607 and 1861. en on the top a cross,2 now broken off,part of which may be seen as a grave stone in thesame church yard. The faces of the obelisk are notquite similar, but the 1st and 2d, and the 3d and 4thagree. The figures and carving are very fair, butthe inscription which has been on the west face, isnot legible. At the top of that face is a figure witha mitre; below that, another in priests habit; thenwas the inscription, and below that, the figure of aman with a bird, said to be St. Peter and the the 2d or south face has be
. Some accounts of the Bewcastle cross between the years 1607 and 1861. en on the top a cross,2 now broken off,part of which may be seen as a grave stone in thesame church yard. The faces of the obelisk are notquite similar, but the 1st and 2d, and the 3d and 4thagree. The figures and carving are very fair, butthe inscription which has been on the west face, isnot legible. At the top of that face is a figure witha mitre; below that, another in priests habit; thenwas the inscription, and below that, the figure of aman with a bird, said to be St. Peter and the the 2d or south face has been a dial,3 and manyother ornaments. The north face has much rich carv-ing, and the chequers seem to point out the armsof some person, and probably to the name of Graham,that being part of their arms, and the present of Netherby is lord of that manor, and thelawful heir of the last Lord Viscount Preston. Onthe east face is a running stem of a vine, with foxes4or monkeys eating the grapes. [17] 18 Some Accounts of the Bewcastle Cross North. Weft. South. Eafl. kA Curious Ojzelisx m£ewcafl-7e Churrh Yard (Text continued on p. 19.) Armstrongs Plate, iyjj 19 The whole carving has been done in a masterlymanner, and beyond comparison it is the richestornamented obelisk of one stone now in Britain: butby whom or on what account it was erected, thereis not the least to be learned from history. Cambden, and other historians, mention this stone,though none of them ever saw it. They would gladlyhave it to be Roman, but the figures and cross plainlyspeak it to be Christian, and very likely it was erectedas a monument near the burial place of the chief manof that place, as the remains of a very large castleare close by it. VIII. HUTCHINSONS HISTORY OF CUMBER-LAND, 1794. [The following extract is taken from Hutchinsons History of theCounty of Cumberland 1. 85—87. The plate is much reduced fromthe original opposite p. 80.]
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