Kirk Braddon also exhibits some extremely interesting examples. Most of these cross-slabs are commemorative of the dead; and one of the inscriptions at Kirkmichael (as in Black's _Guide to the Isle of Man_) may fairly be given as typical of the rest: Joalf son of Thorolf the Red erected this cross to his mother Frida. [Illustration: THE CALF OF MAN, FROM SPANISH HEAD. The Calf is at the southern extremity of the island and is separated by the narrow and dangerous Calf Sound, on the right of the picture.] One of those, however, at Kirk Maughold is not strictly a cross-slab at all, but seems merely to have been carved on a face of rock by the village priest--perhaps in a moment of leisure on some pleasant summer afternoon, just as Wordsworth carved the name of "Joanna" Above the Rotha, by the forest side. It comes from Keeil Woirrey, Corna, and bears the touching Runic inscription: "Christ Malachi Patrick and Adamnan (perhaps an invocation of the worthy pastor's patron saints): of all the sheep John is the Priest in Corna Dale." But these prehistoric cross-slabs, if prehistoric we may call them--and though certainly they are not prehistoric in the strict and proper sense of the word, they are prehistoric in the sense of reaching far back into paths of history that are only dimly lighted, and are difficult to traverse--do not exhaust the archaeological treasures in which Kirk Maughold is so rich. On the strip of village green, as we approach the churchyard, is a picturesque, seventeenth-century sundial on three steps, with the inscription: _Eus. (Edwardus) Christian fecit, 1666_. Christian, I believe, like Quaile, is still a common Manx surname. Hard at hand is another old cross, but, of course, far later than those in the churchyard. This, in its present state, measures more than 10 feet in height, and its head--perhaps later than the shaft--which is sculptured with a ring and cross, a chalice and missal, and the famous arms of Man, and surmounted above all by a Crucifixion and Virgin and Child, is a rare and very interesting survival.