A manual for the study of the sepulchral slabs and crosses of the middle ages (1849)
Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901, Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland · London, J. H. Parker · leaf 62
s possible that some of thesmaller examples engraved as head-stones may be in factfoot-stones. Wooden grave crosses were sometimes used, but fromtheir perishable nature no ancient examples, it is believed,now remain : they are still in use in Normandy, and otherparts of France. Of the designs on… … 50 CHRONOLOGY OF GRAVE-STONES. CHRONOLOGY OF GRAVE-STONES. Since this is the first attempt which has been made toarrange a collection of ancient grave-stones in chronologicalorder, it may be satisfactory and useful to the student ofantiquities to point out those peculiarities which indicatethe date…
Sepulchral monuments · Sculpture, Medieval
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