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A HISTORY OF CORNWALL ST. COLUMB MINOR. Rude pillar stone built into wall of one of the farm buildings at Rialton, on the outside. No previous history available. The inscription is in two lines : BONEMIMORI ILLI TRIBVNI. (Plate III, fig. 23.) ST. CUBERT. Rude pillar stone built into west wall of church tower on the outside. No previous history available. The inscription, in three unequal lines, runs as follows : CONETOCI FILITEGERNO MALI. (Plate I, fig. 7). ST. ENDELLION. Unornamented cross-shaft standing on Doydon headland. Originally it stood at the cross roads about midway between St. Endellion and Port Quin, and was then called Long Cross. Its base remains in situ. The inscription is in two lines : Q-j- BROCAGNI IHC IACIT NADOTTI FiLivs. On the back of this stone is an equal-limbed cross in relief. (Plate VI, fig. 38.). Above reading by Rev. W. Jago. ST. ERTH. Rude pillar stone standing in a plantation near west end of railway viaduct at Hayle, by the side of a path against a bank. Found in 1843 four feet below the surface, near its present position. The ten remaining lines of inscription are : HIC [IN PA] CEM REQVIEVIT (here a line is obliterated) CVNAIDE HIC [IN] TVMVLO IACIT VIXIT ANNOS xxxni. (Plate II, fig. i o.) ST. EWE. Cross-base at Lanhadron l by the roadside on Nunnery Hill, buried in a hedge. Excavated and uncovered on 29 April, 1879, for inspection by Rev. W. Jago. Of the inscription only CRUCEM is legible. (Plate V, fig. 33.) ST. HILARY. (i) Rude pillar stone standing in the churchyard against east bank of path on south side. Found in the ruins of the church after its destruction by fire in 1853. The inscription 3 is in two lines : NOTI NOTI. (Plate II, fig. 1 1 .) (2) Plain cross standing at entrance to East Treveneage 8 Farm, in use as a gatepost. Formerly used in its original state as a gatepost, but afterwards re-cut for the same purpose in a new position and entirely defaced. Nothing is now left of the inscription except portions of an N and an A. A long and wide-limbed Latin cross in relief on the back of the stone was obliterated at the same time as the lettering. (Plate IV, fig. 27.) ST. JUST IN PEN WITH. (i) A Latin cross-head found at St. Helen's Chapel, Cape Cornwall ; now missing. Blight gives a sketch and some notes of the chapel. 4 It has the Chi-Rho monogram at the intersection of the limbs. (Plate II, fig. 13.) (2) Rude pillar stone in the church, standing at the west end of the north aisle. Found in 1834 in east wall of chancel, when it was taken down and used as a credence table till 1901. On the front is the Chi-Rho monogram, and on the right side in two lines is the inscription NI SELVS 1C IACIT. (Plate II, fig. 14.) (3) Rude pillar stone standing on a waste piece of land atBoslow, called Water Lane. It appears to be in situ. On the front is an inscription in two lines : T A E T (?) -(- UENA, and on the left side is an incised cross with expanded ends. (Plate IV, % 3-) ST. MICHAEL PENKEVIL. Fragment built into buttress of old building. Noticed by the writer, who failed to find any other portions. The letter R is inscribed on the middle of this fragment. (Plate III, fig. 18.) SANCREED. (i) Ornamented cross standing in the churchyard by west side of path from south entrance. Formerly deeply sunk in ground. Inscription found by the writer in digging to find lower parts of ornament. Raised and mounted on an old cross-base by the late vicar, Rev. R. Basset Rogers, on 15 June, 1895. On the front of the head in bold relief is the figure of our Lord with extended arms, clothed in a tunic, the feet resting on a rounded projection. The middle section of the shaft is filled by a jug holding a long-stemmed fleur de lis. At the top of the lowest panel is an almost obliterated inscription, apparently INCX with x below. On the right side, below the diagonal key-pattern ornament, is a much-defaced inscription in two lines, N i + FILIVS 1C. (Plate III, fig. 24). (2) Ornamented cross standing in the churchyard on east side of south porch. Shaft found in 1881 built into east wall of church. The head had been for years on the churchyard hedge. Inscription found as in last instance. Erected on a rough base by the vicar and the writer on 13 June, 1894. On the front of the head is the figure of our Lord in relief. Below the interlaced work of the middle panel is an inscription in two lines, R u N H o [L] (?) Possibly there may have been other letters at the top of the shaft. (Plate VI, fig. 37.) 1 From a drawing by Rev. W. Jago.

  • There are some unintelligible figures, or possibly letters, at the commencement of the inscription.

3 From a sketch by Rev. W. Jago. 4 J. T. Blight, A Week at the Land's End, 179. 420