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ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS Christian cross,*^ the arms resembling the lobes at the upper angles of the Runic slab already mentioned. In two opposite angles is a fleur-de-lys, no doubt merely ornamental, while at the top are traces of interlacing, though the animal motive is absent. The smaller stone, which measures 20 in. by I 5 in., and is of the same thickness as the other fragment, has at the end a figure combining the lobe and fleur-de-lys, while the scrolls and interlacing are clearly of the same style as the monument of Toki. The two fragments are now approximately in position, and would constitute about two-thirds of an ordinary grave-slab. Both edges are preserved in part, one being square with the narrow end, which is straight and nearly perfect, while the other edge tapers towards the foot. The upper surface is slightly convex, and the stone is quite different from the headstone, being of sandstone, possibly a sarsen from the Thames basin. It may here be noted that Rafn identified this Toki of London with Tokig, a minister of Canute, mentioned in several documents ranging from 10 19 to 1043 ; and the name occurs as that of the person responsible for the inscription ** on a monumental stone found beneath the floor of the tower during the rebuilding of St. Mary's Church, Stratfield Mortimer, in 1866. Another illustration of this style is afforded by a cylinder of bone (fig. 33) found at St. Martin's-le-Grand and now in the Guildhall Museum [Cat. p. Fig. 33. — Engraved Bone Cylinder, St. Martin's-le-Grand (f) 126, no. 173, pi. xcix, fig. 4). Its purpose is not apparent and the engraving is evidently incomplete, suggesting an engraver's trial-piece like that already described (fig. 21) ; but the animal head and the interlaced band ending in a serpentine head are closely related to the gravestone from St. Paul's Church- ' yard and may be safely ascribed to the late Viking period. As the area dealt with in this chapter is small, the remaining pre-Norman sepulchral monuments are included here, and not, as usual, under another heading. One is a circular cross-head (fig. 19) from the churchyard of St. John's-upon-Walbrook, and is now in the British Museum. It is 14 in. in diameter and 6 in. thick, with traces of a proportionately narrow shaft (3^ in. across). The design is virtually the same on both faces, and though somewhat damaged is seen to have been somewhat unsymmetrical. The cruciform motive is not predominant, and the wavy border is quite unusual. ' An exact parallel would be hard to find, but the fragment presents a general resemblance to the Cornish series of wheel-crosses,^° and is clearly of native, as opposed to Scandinavian, workmanship, and the large size of the head " Many examples of this on Swedish monuments of the period are figured in Goransson's Bautil (i75°)- " The inscription is in Latin capitals, and ends with toki me scripsit : V C.H. Berks, i, 248. '° A. G. Langdon, Old Cornish Crosses ; V.C.H. Conzu. i, 426, and plates. I 169 22