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156 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. have him also repaired, cleaned, and restored : during which operation the cast I now forward was made, and is of course perfectly accurate. On this effigy also there were a few traces of ancient colour. Whilst I am writing, I would venture to draw your attention to the seal, which I had hoped to have had an opportunity of again exhibiting to the Institute next week, and which is engraved in the title-page of the Institute's Winchester book. There can be no doubt that it is the seal of Wykeham, as archdeacon of Lincoln, though the artist has scarcely made it so clear as it even yet re- mains. I remember, however, when it was more perfect. My reason for stating this, is, because it contradicts ' the Report of Robert Glover, Somerset Herald,' quoted in Lowth's Life, p. 10 (note), who asserts, that ' Before he was Bishoppe, when as yet he was archdeacon of Lincolne, he sealed but with one cheveron in his armes between three roses : but after, when he was advanced to the bishoppi'icke, he sealed with two cheverons between three roses.' The latter part of the inscription of the seal, bear- ing the double chevron, is evidently incolnien." We are indebted to Mr. W. Bernhard Smith for the sketch of a crucifix existing in a cavern in Derbyshire, probably the dwelling of an anchorite, or a place of pilgrimage, and one of the very few objects of the kind which have escaped the zeal of iconoclasts. Mr. Smith gives the following ac- count of this interesting relic, wiiich is not easy of access, and appears to have been unnoticed. " The crucifix, which is about four feet high, is sculp- tured in bold relief in the red- grit rock composing a small cave in the side of a hill called Cardiff Tor, near Rowsley, a little miserable village, not far Crucifix, Cardiff Tor, Derbyshire. from Haddon Hall. It is in a recess on the right side of the cave as you enter it, and close to it is a rude niche, perhaps to hold a lamp. The fea-