...This stone has been taken away within memory [in 1 799] ; and the cross which crowned the two columns, after that column was cruelly cut down and converted into a style for a sun-dial, was put into the parson's garden of * Engraved in Lysons'g Magna Britannia, and in the Gentleman'8 Magazine, 1799. Gosforth...

...reported, a fellow column at about 7 feet distance, »with an horizontal stone between the two on which was »rudely cut the figure of a large and antique sword....I may add that at the annual meeting of the Royal Arch Ecological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland at Carlisle, Aug. 1 — 9, a Paper on the Qosforth...

...has been taken away within memory, and the cross which crowned the two columns, (evidently a mistake for second column,) after that column was cruelly cut down and converted into a style lor a sundial, was put into the parson's garden at Gosforth and there remains." * See these on the...

...sword. This stone has been taken away within memory ; and the cross which crowned the two columns, after that column was cruelly cut down and converted into a style for a sun-dial, was put into the parson's garden of Gosforth, and there remains. On this column I once, by means of chalking, discovered...