HOVINGHAM.—The bas-relief figured is built into the south wall of the tower, which Prof. Baldwin Brown (The Arts in Early England, ii., p. 339) dates as late pre-Norman; from which it may be inferred that the stone, originally a lintel, altar-front or reredos, is earlier. It is of pale yellow, fine-grained stone, prettily designed, crisply chiselled, but much weathered and defaced, measuring 63 by 22 inches. To the spectator's left the first two panels evidently represent the Annunciation; note the Virgin's chair, cushion and footstool, the Byzantine-looking rod of the angel, and the suggestion of movement in the angel's attitude and drapery, which however is not flying drapery, but rather of the type of Easby g. Of the four figures in the middle panels, the second seems to be holding a book (compare a panel on Masham column), and the four may be meant for evangelists. The last two panels form a pendant to the Annunciation group; the foot of the last figure to sinister stands on small object, more flattened than it appears in the drawing, which I cannot interpret, but suggest that the subject intended is the Salutation. The spandrils above seem to contain doves or weathered leaves, as in similar spandrils at Peterborough and Masham. Below is a running pattern not unlike that on the Archer shaft of St. Andrew's, Auckland. The first two branchings to dexter seem to have bindings, though the rest are too worn to show them; the Rev. Arthur Brooke, rector of Slingsby, kindly made a visit to the place to check my observation of this point, and confirms it. The bindings, and the arches, with the resemblance to "Hedda's tomb," Masham pillar, Easby g, and still more to the "Loaves and Fishes" shaft at Hornby (Lancashire), a certainly pre-Norman stone with graceful figures like these, together with its position as built into an eleventh-century wall, seem to justify a date of A 2.

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INGLEBY ARNCLIFFE.-Three stones drawn and described from material kindly supplied by the Rev. Carus Vale Collier, F.S.A.

The fragment a is built into the south wall of the tower, inside; about 10 by 16 inches; relief rather flat; a scroll in a non-rectangular panel. Perhaps a piece of a shrine-tomb.

Fragment of shaft (b) built into the north wall of tower, inside; 10 by about 5 inches. The plaited cord is rounded, and the knot is. very unusual-see page 287. (A 3?)

Fragment (c) on the window-sill in vestry; about 8 by 8 inches. The carved surfaces, divided by an arris-moulding, are at obtuse angles to one another. Perhaps a bit of hogback.

Two stones from Ingleby Arncliffe are in the Cathedral Library, Durham, given by Mr. William Brown, F.S.A., and figured in his

book, Ingleby Arncliffe and its Owners (Leeds, 1901). One of these (No. 64) is a muzzled-bear hogback; the other (No. 65) is a late coped stone.

KILDALE. The end of a cross-arm (a, b) measures 12 by 9 inches. (A 3.) The incised cross (c), perhaps a fragment of pre-Norman late slab, is on a stone measuring 18 by 14 inches. Both are sketched from rubbings kindly sent by the Rev. Carus Vale Collier. At Kildale are fragments of coped gravestones with rectilinear patterns, possibly post-Conquest.

KIRKBY-IN-CLEVELAND.-These stones also are from drawings and measurements by the Rev. C. V. Collier, to whom I owe notices of other stones now at Kirkby Church, at the east end of the south aisle; namely (1) cross-head, 11 inches high, 11 inches broad, and 6 inches across neck, like the Resting Cross at St. Bees, post-Conquest; (2) a stone 18 inches tall and 14 inches broad, with figure in basrelief of a Norman knight on horseback holding a sword point upwards in his right hand, while over the horse's head is another figure with a battle-axe; (3) a stone 23 inches tall and 10 inches broad, with a rather high relief of a lady in long gown, hanging sleeves, girdle with long ends and brooch; costume of the first half of the twelfth century; fan (?) and bunch of flowers (?) in her hands.

Figure a opposite is apparently part of a shaft, 9 by 8 inches. The cross-head (b) is 15 by 14 inches, with radius of about 9 to 10 inches. Unusual interlacement; wheel as in Brompton e. (B 3.) Bit of cross-arm (c) appears to be of similar class to b.

KIRKBY HILL.-The cross-head (a) is over the south door in the porch of the church. It is of buff sandstone, about 8 by 11 inches.

The shaft-fragment (b) is inside the porch, of light red sandstone, 9 by 10 inches; it is hacked, not deep cut, and the little wavy line on the margin is very lightly cut. (B 3?)

In the porch over the south door is the fragment of shaft (c), measuring 15 by 10 inches, tapering to 9 inches. The pattern is hacked, not deeply; the design rude, showing in the lower panel a sort of "rustication," seen again at Wath. (C 1?)

The south nave door has the pre-Norman impost (d, e) in situ; d is the face turned westward, and the adjoining face of the same stone, looking south. The stone is of yellow grit, measuring 26 by 14 inches, and 10 inches high. The carving is deep and smooth, with edges and arris rounded off; the crossings of the plait-work lightly indicated (as in Hackness shaft), and the design beautifully