Sidney Oldall Addy

“ This old emblem of religion, once standing where the roads met, is interesting not only as being the only example of its kind which has been preserved in this district, but as a relic of the cross-worship which must at one time have prevailed here as well as amongst other northern peoples. In the Icelandic Sagas one meets with sentences as "to go to worship at church or cross," or "he comes neither to cross nor church," [6] just as one hears people nowadays say "he goes neither to church nor chapel." ”

“ A stone cross of great antiquity and interesting shape has lately been found by the road side in Low Bradfield at a place called The Cross. "It was dug out of a field near a public-house called the Cross Inn," [5] and is now placed in Bradfield church. The five circles or globes carved in low relief upon the cross seem to be emblems of sun-worship illustrating the transition from heathenism to Christianity. ”

“ An objection to this derivation is that one would expect the a in Banner to be sounded like the a in same; at present it is like the a in man.↑ A writer of 1570 quoted in Brand's Popular Antiq. 1849, i, p. ”