A 10th-century Anglo-Saxon/Ottonian reliquary cross, made out of ivory and gold with enamel on a cedar wood base: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reliquary_cross_VandA_7943-1862.jpg …pic.twitter.com/MmWvSM9lG7
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It was presumably set up in 1801 by/for J. B. and S. How, but I fear I don't know who they might be!
(The inscription is mentioned by J. Matthews in his 19thC history of Lelant, St Ives etc, but isn't elucidated, alas)
Thanks very much for this
My pleasure! I've had a quick look through the early burial records for the parish and can't spot anyone called How... Will have to go have a look at the inscription I think! :)
It does look older than early 19thC but it is difficult to tell absolutely because of the sign.
It's a v difficult question, the dating of such stones! There's a fab example from Trevalgan farm, St Ives; Okasha considered it an impossible-to-decipher 5th-11thC stone, but Charles Thomas pointed out that read the other way around it seemed to contain the date 1811...! :)pic.twitter.com/uVTzJP5xMW
Agree that’s difficult to date, feels like an unaccomplished rural hand, l love this tiny stone fragment in St Paul’s Ludgvanpic.twitter.com/hGuy9kyQkQ
Oh, very nice! :)
Rock Shelter StanageEdge #Derbyshire possibly done 17thC post reformation,maybe earlier but certainly not later.pic.twitter.com/ZRvBBWSvdJ
Oh, excellent! I do love early graffiti; have some photographs of some of that from Tintagel cliff somewhere, utterly fascinating!
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