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 EARLY CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS MADRON. Rude pillar stone standing on Gun Me"n Scryfa Down, near the ' Nine Maidens.' Thrown down by treasure hunters, but re-erected about 1862. Inscription in two lines: RIALOBRANI CUNOVALI FILL (Plate III, fig. 17.) MAWGAN IN MENEAGE. Mawgan Cross. 1 Rude pillar stone standing in the village at the meeting of three roads, and believed to be in situ. Inscription in two lines : c N E G u M i FILI GENAIVS. (Plate II, fig. 16.) MAWGAN IN PYDER. Wheel-cross with interlacing ornament. Standing in the Convent garden, Lanherne, and brought many years since from a field called Chapel Close, on the barton of Roseworthy, Gwinear. On front a figure of our Lord; at base of shaft an inscription in four lines : + Br EID ET IMAH. On back five circular bosses, and at base of shaft RO HOL." (Plate V, fig. 34.) MINSTER. (i) Cross-shaft with interlacing ornament, standing in its base by the right side of the road from Tintagel to Launceston, on Waterpit Down. About 1860 it was taken to Trekeek farm and used as the pivot-stone for a threshing machine, but in 1889 it was restored to its base. Inscription in five lines on front of shaft, the letters much defaced : CR vx IHC VR oc(?) (Plate VI, fig. 43.) (2) Rude pillar stone lying by right bank of stream about a furlong above Slaughter Bridge in Worthyvale. Borlase says this stone ' was formerly a foot-bridge.' It is locally known as ' King Arthur's tomb.' Inscription in two lines ; LATIN! 1C IACIT FILIUS MACARI. (Plate IV, fig. 29.) NANSCOWE. See ST. BREOCK. PAR. Ornamented cross-shaft from Biscovey, now standing in Par churchyard. Bought and removed there in September, 1896, by Rev. D. R. Vaughan. Formerly stood in use as a gate-post at Biscovey Gate on south side of road from St. Blazey to St. Austell. On the front is the inscription : -(- AL RO RON in three lines under the ornamentation, and on the back in two lines, with ornament above and below, are the words : VLLICI + FILIVS. (Plate V, fig- 35-) PENDARVES. See CAMBORNE. PENZANCE. Ornamented cross now standing in the garden in front of the library. Prior to 1824 it stood in the Green Market, in which year it was removed to North Street. In 1868 it was placed against the west end of the market-house, and on 15 July, 1899, it was erected at the library. Inscription on two faces, not yet deciphered. PHILLACK. (i) Cut stone with raised medallion built into gable of south porch of church. When the church was taken down in 1856 it was found under the plaster on the inner face of the south wall. Within the circle is the Chi-Rho monogram. (Plate III, fig. 21.) (2) Rude pillar stone standing in the churchyard on south side, found at the same time as the last, in the foundations of the chancel. The inscription CLOTUALI MOBRATTiisin two lines. (Plate III, fig. 22.) REDGATE. See ST. CLEER. RIALTON. See ST. COLUMB MINOR. ST. BREOCK. Rude pillar stone standing on farm at Nanscowe in use as a gatepost. No previous history of it is available. On the front is the inscription VLCAGNI FILI, and on the right side s E v E R I. (Plate III, fig. 19.) ST. CLEER. Ornamented cross-base standing in a field at Redgate named ' Pennant,' close to ' The Other Half Stone.' In 1 849 it was taken out of a pit in which it had lain for some years, and was again set up. Filling the front in five lines is the inscription, DON i ERTRO GAVIT PROAN IMA (Doniert rogavit pro anima). (Plate V, fig. 36.) ST. CLEMENT. Unornamented cross standing in the vicarage garden by steps leading up to the churchyard, and formerly used as a gatepost to one of the fields in this parish. At the head is a rude cross in an oval, beneath which there runs vertically down the pillar stone the inscription IGNIOC VITALI FILI TORRICI. (Plate I, fig. 5.) ST. COLUMB MAJOR. (i) Unornamented cross standing in the churchyard on east side of south porch. Formerly stood outside the churchyard wall, prior to which it had been used as a gatepost. Only a very few letters of the inscription are now left. (Plate I, fig. 6.) (2) Rude pillar stone standing in village near a building which was formerly the ' Indian Queen ' public-house. 3 It has been used as a gatepost. Borlase says he ' accidentally met with this stone,' and gives RVANI HIC IACIT as the reading of the inscription ; only part of the name is now distinguishable. (Plate II, fig. 12.) 1 From a drawing by Rev. W. Jago. 1 By comparison with Sancreed No. 2 this word seems to be R u N H o L. 3 The village is called after it, Indian Queens. 419