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  2. Ruthwell Cross - Wikipedia

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    The Ruthwell Cross is a stone Anglo-Saxon cross probably dating from the 8th century, [1] when the village of Ruthwell, now in Scotland, was part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria. It is the most famous and elaborate Anglo-Saxon monumental sculpture, [ 2 ] and possibly contains the oldest surviving text, predating any manuscripts ...

  3. Ruthwell - Wikipedia

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    Ruthwell is a village and parish on the Solway Firth between Dumfries and Annan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. In 2022 the combined population of Ruthwell and nearby Clarencefield was 400. [2] Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, gave Ruthwell to his nephew, Sir William Murray, confirmed to Sir John Murray, of Cockpool, in 1509 by King James VI.

  4. List of listed buildings in Ruthwell, Dumfries and Galloway

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    The scheme for classifying buildings in Scotland is: Category A: "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic; or fine, little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type." [1]

  5. Anglo-Saxon runes - Wikipedia

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    Gar appears in manuscripts, and epigraphically on the Ruthwell Cross and probably on the Bewcastle Cross. [8] The unnamed ᛤ rune only appears on the Ruthwell Cross, where it seems to take calc's place as /k/ where that consonant is followed by a secondary fronted vowel. Cweorð and stan only appear in manuscripts. The unnamed ę rune only ...

  6. Dumfriesshire - Wikipedia

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    The Ruthwell Cross County Buildings, the former headquarters of Dumfriesshire County Council, and since 1975 the headquarters of Dumfries and Galloway Council. Archaeological remains from the neolithic and Bronze Age include stone circles (as in Dunscore and Eskdalemuir ), tumuli and cairns (Closeburn), and sculptured stones (Dornock). [ 1 ]

  7. Preaching cross - Wikipedia

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    The Ruthwell Cross. A preaching cross is a Christian cross sometimes surmounting a pulpit, which is erected outdoors to designate a preaching place. In Great Britain and Ireland, many free-standing upright crosses – or high crosses – were erected. Some of these crosses bear figurative or decorative carvings, or inscriptions in runes.

  8. The Dream of the Rood - Wikipedia

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    The Ruthwell Cross. A part of The Dream of the Rood can be found on the eighth-century Ruthwell Cross, which is an 18 feet (5.5 m), free-standing Anglo-Saxon cross that was perhaps intended as a 'conversion tool'. [10] At each side of the vine-tracery are carved runes.

  9. James King Hewison - Wikipedia

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    The Covenanters: A History of the Church in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution (1913) v.1 [2] v.2 [3] The runic roods of Ruthwell and Bewcastle, with a short history of the cross and crucifix in Scotland (1914) Edited Certain Tractates: Together with the Book of Four Score Three Questions by Ninian Winzet