Brasses
MONUMENTAL, large plates of brass, or of the mixed metal called latten or laton, inlaid on slabs of stone, and usually forming part of the pavement of a church. The figure of the person intended to be commemorated was generally represented either by the form of the brass itself, or by lines engraven on it. Such, however, was not always the case, an ornamented or foliated cross, with other sacred emblems, being frequently substituted for the fig- Nor was the practice of imbedding ure. them in the pavement uniform, as they were sometimes found elevated on what were called altar tombs.