There are also three wheel-heads, of which two are figured; i measures 15 by 11 inches, and is similar on the other side; k and I are two views of another, of which the radius is 9 inches; and the third is like k, l, except that it has no pellets on the wheel, which is rudimentary and unpierced (like e), and the boss in the centre is not panelled in a square. This last has a radius of 10 inches, and is 4 inches thick: it has a knot on the end of the arm, like k. (B 2.)

All these are of the same coarse brown freestone, and were discovered in 1867, at the restoration of the church, in the foundations (The Rev. G. Rowe, Report of the Yorkshire Architectural Society, 1878).

CATTERICK. Fragments acquired by Bishop Browne, and now in the Antiquarian Museum, Cambridge, have been mentioned to me by Mr. Romilly Allen's kindness:

(1) Part of a cross-head, 15 inches across the arms; the end of each lateral arm measures 11 by 4 inches. A bird on each side of the boss, and below them a rectangular knot, unique in the North Riding, but plaited like "Sir T. Heneage's knot" in heraldry.

(2) Cross-arm, the end of which measures 12 inches by 4; length of fragment 9 inches; filled with elaborate but not quite regular interlacing.

CRATHORNE. The stone (a) over the south door of the church is of buff sandstone, 72 inches long by 14 inches high, and about 13 thick. The figure shows the external side, neatly chiselled in medium relief, with surfaces smoothly rounded. Note the interruption of the plait at irregular distances, giving variety and picturesqueness to an otherwise monotonous design. The back is similar, but less carefully carved, and partly cut away to insert the wooden door-lintel, as was done with the Cundall shaft. (A 3.)

The fragment (b), of dark buff sandstone, about 14 by 7 inches, is built into the tower. It is chiselled carving; perhaps a small graveslab. (B 1.)

The grave-cover (c) is also built into the tower; it is about 28 inches long, and has bevelled edges, and a triquetra. (B 1.)

The neck of a cross-shaft, of which d, e, f, g are the four sides, is fixed on a window-sill. It is of hacked work in brown sandstone; about 14 inches high by 9 inches broad. Note the dimpled pellets, coiled serpent and sea-horse type of dragon in e, and the wings of the bearded figure (Evangelist ?) in g. (B 2.)

The cross-head (h) is built into the tower, inside; of brown sandstone, about 21 inches high, low relief. The Rev. J. M. Wilson, rector of Crathorne, says that there is a cross on the reverse. (C 2.)

In the church are also two fragments of a hogback, very battered, of rude hacked work in dark buff sandstone, with a plait along the edge (not figured). (B 2.)

A hogback from Crathorne, similar to the stone here shown (a), but with the addition of tegulæ, is in the Durham Cathedral Library (No. 51 in the catalogue).

CROFT.-On a north window-sill in the church, near the Millbank monument, is the beautiful fragment (a, b, c, d) of an Anglian crossshaft, found by Canon Greenwell, and now well shown on a revolving pedestal. The carving is so delicate that the sketch opposite only roughly represents its design, but there are casts in the Durham Cathedral Library and Leeds Museum.

The fragment is of whitish brown stone, fine grained; 18 inches long, by 12 tapering to 11 inches broad, and 63 tapering to 6 inches thick. The arrises are rounded, taking off the rigidity of a highly finished contour. The consecution of the strap-work in a is free and irregular, but the straps are smoothly rounded, and well tucked under where they cross. The ground is cut away flat. Note the curved lines of the frame in b, which show that the design was drawn in freehand on the stone, not mechanically ruled out. The surfaces of the relief are flat, but the edges are varied, some rounded and some sharp. The ground is sunk about one-third of an inch. The side has been defaced, except the small bit of exquisite convolvulus design. Ind the central stem leans on one side, and the loops are artistically asymmetrical. (A 1.)

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In the north aisle is also a cross-fragment (e, f, g) of the Viking Age, strongly contrasting with the refinement of the Anglian work. It was found by the Rev. J. M. Marshall, rector of Croft, and is of light red sandstone, 35 inches long, 17 tapering to 15 inches broad, and 7 tapering to 6 inches thick. The edges are hacked, while the faces are chiselled in very shallow relief, the outlines being incised deeply. The reverse is not drawn here, as it has only a morsel of pattern at the top, a bit of the Scandinavian interwoven circle (as in Viking Age stones at Lancaster and Aspatria). There is a vague appearance of pattern in the lower part of the stone, but this I think merely weathering, the fragment being the lowest part of a shaft, with a plain stump to be planted in the ground. (B 2.)

Mr. J. Romilly Allen, in a paper of 1894, mentions a hogback at Croft, which I have not seen.