Identifier: victoriahistorycorn01page (find matches)
Title: The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Page, William, 1861-1934
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London : (A. Constable and Company)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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examples in Cornwall, namely, Altarnun, Callington, Jacobstow, Landrake, Laneast,*Lawhitton, Lezant, St. Thomas the Apostle,* and Warbstow.^ In conclusion it only remains to add that the illustrations of the tympana, like those ofthe inscribed stones, the ornamented crosses, and coped stones, have been with four exceptionsprepared from the writers own rubbings, photographed to scale so as to ensure accuracy. A band of plain interlaced rings similar to these extends across the bottom of a tympanum atBeckford, Glouc. See J. R. Allen, Early Christian Symbolism, 261. An ornate fragment of Normansculpture with interlaced rings, preserved in the Chapter House at Westminster Abbey, is engraved byParker in his J.B.C. of Gothic Architecture, 3rd ed. 1882, 79. ^ Excellent photo illustrations will be found in the Journ. Royal Inst. Cornwall, xiv (1901), 394. ^ Langdon, Old Cornish Crosses, 76 to 79, and 165. * Illustrated in Jrch. Camb., Ser. 5, vol. xiii, 159. * Ibid. 347. ® Ibid. 160. 449 57
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Between pages 4.50 an J 451- ANCIENT EARTHWORKS AND DEFENSIVE ENCLOSURES IN this chapter, which will be found to contain a fairly completelist of the ancient earthworks of the county, an attempt is madeto classify them according to their physical characteristics. This plan has been adopted partly because no other method is at presentequally available, and partly because the distinctions upon which thearrangement is based are well marked. With the exception of thework done at Chyoone Castle by the Penzance Natural History andAntiquarian Society in 1895 ^^ ^^ Tregeare in St. Kew by Messrs.Burnard and Baring-Gould in 1902, nothing in the nature of organizedexcavation has been attempted, and in the absence of the informationwhich may be derived from such a source, or from historical record,this classification cannot at present be regarded as final, but thedifferences in the typical features which lead to it are obvious, andencourage the assumption that they have a historical foundation. T

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