A new find of a 10th-century Anglo-Saxon standing cross at Louth, Lincolnshire—brief post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/discovery-tenth-century-louth-cross.html …pic.twitter.com/t61qEsXJUz
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Some more images of the stone & the press release from St James's Church, Louth: https://www.facebook.com/louthchurch/posts/615571228610353 …pic.twitter.com/Rjy8G1FQEP
St Herefrith of Louth, prob last Bishop of Lindsey (d.c.870)+St Æthelheard, abbot of Louth+Archbp Canterbury, d.805pic.twitter.com/sHHa9flu4f
L11thC account of the theft of St Herefrith's relics from Louth in c. 973 by Æthelwold of Winchesterpic.twitter.com/qdJeEeEbDT
Upper piece of the Anglo-Saxon cross from Louth just after its discovery, via http://www.lincoln.anglican.org/news-events/news-stories/the-louth-cross-10th-century-find-in-louth/ … & @CofELincolnpic.twitter.com/px2VW4c0UM
The garden of the rectory on Brown's Panorama of Louth, c.1847-56, w/ collection of stonework at south endpic.twitter.com/eS2nVcptGg
@caitlinrgreen and we must not forget our ancestors did not live in black&white world' all of this was likely decorated! pigments?
@morangles Not obvious, but I agree on the idea of life in colour in this era as well as Roman—cf Jelling runestone!https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/614400167232585728 …
@caitlinrgreen Jarrow&Escomb churches old Saxon stained glass show colours It is our vision which is limited not theirs
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