A much simpler and more convincing explanation is that the stone crosses were erected in order to disaffect and sanctify places which from time immemorial had been devoted to old pagan superstitions.[33] This at any rate has the merit of being in accordance with the facts disclosed by the Sampson episode. Moreover, it avoids the anachronism which connects them with sun worship, while at the same time it disallows the charge of incredible folly which must otherwise be imputed to the founders of Cornish Christianity if we suppose those earnest men to have retained a degrading symbol of nature worship with little or no modification of its structural features. ----- Footnote 11: A still earlier age, the eolithic, which in Sussex has supplied my school contemporary, Dr. A. Smith Woodward of the British Museum, with what he believes to be a link between man and his pre-human ancestor is not represented in Cornwall. Footnote 12: _Geology of the Land’s End District_, pp. 79-80. Footnote 13: “_Le prétendu caractère phallique de quelques-uns de ces monuments n’est qu’une conjecture chimérique qui a permis à certains esprits imaginatifs de se donner carrière._” Déchelette, _Manuel d’Archéologie_, I, 431, n. 2. Footnote 14: W. C. Borlase, _Nænia Cornubiæ_, p. 99: “Wishing to put beyond dispute the origin and purpose of some few at least of these monoliths, and to ascertain if any were indeed sepulchral, the author ... examined the ground round some half-dozen of them.” At the foot of a menhir at Pridden, St. Buryan, he found “a deposit of splinters of human bone.” At the foot of a menhir at Trelew, St. Buryan, he found “a deposit of splintered bones similar in quantity and appearance to that found at Pridden.” A precisely similar discovery was made at Trenuggo, Sancreed. Another at Tregonebris. Footnote 15: This is shown by the presence of bronze sickles in Ligurian graves and their absence in Iberian. Footnote 16: _Archéologie: Age du Bronze_, chap. xiii. Footnote 17: Quoted by Déchelette, _Archéologie_, II, pp. 413, 567; by Lord Avebury, _Prehistoric Times_, p. 132; by D. Gougaud, _Chrétientés_, p. 13. Footnote 18: _Archéologie_, II, p. 30. Footnote 19: _England before the Norman Conquest_, p. 9. Footnote 20: Ezekiel, xxvii and xxviii. Footnote 21: Sir Hercules Read, _Early Iron Age_, p. 85. Footnote 22: _Arch. Journal_, viii, 8. Footnote 23: _Age du Bronze_, p. 29. Footnote 24: Oman, _England before the Norman Conquest_, p. 107. Footnote 25: