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Mr. Aftle's Obferuations on Stone Pillars, catcd feveral columns, pillars, and obeliiks, to different apoftles and faints, as may be feen in Piranefi, and other writers on the Anti- quities of Rome. Many inftances might be given of crofles having been placed as .marks for the boundaries of diftricts, which remain at this day ; but thefe are fo numerous, that it is necefTary to mention only a 'few. Formerly a pillar flood at High-Crofs, at the crofling of the two Roman roads, the Watling-Street and the Fofs, where was the ftation of the Bennones, near the once famous city of the Romans, called Clay-Chefter, now Claybrooke, in Leicefterfhire, which fe- parates the county from that of Warwick . The ftone at Frifby, called Stump- Croft, is a boundary ftone between that village and Aflifordby in the county of Leicefter. There is another ftone like- wife called Stump-Crofs on the eftate of my friend Charles Townley, of Townley, Efq. which ftands on the fummit of a high hill within the townfhip of Cliverger, in the parifh of Whalley, and county of Lancafter ; it is at prefent about five feet high. Many of thefe ftones were demolifhed by the chriftians, when they fuppofed them to have been dedicated to idolatrous purpofes, and their ancient names were foon forgotten, which may be the reafon why fo many broken crofTes are called Stump- Croffes. The fhire ftone upon the mountain called Wiynofe, at the head of the river Dudding in Cum- berland, divides that county from Weftmoreland [o]. The infcrip- tion on the boundary ftone of Croyland manifefts the purpofe for which it was erected [p]. " Aio hanc Petram Guthlacus habet fibi me tarn." [] Vide Dugclale'sWar, p. 73. [o] Hutchinfon's Cumberland, Vol. I. p. 43. [p"] See Differtations upon this Stone by Governour Povvnal], and Mr. Pegge, in the Archaeolou'ia, Vol. Ill, p. 96, and Voj. V. p. 101, There