Obverse, showing vinescroll, leaf frond and berry bunch decoration.
SC 382604
Description Obverse, showing vinescroll, leaf frond and berry bunch decoration.
Date 1993
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 382604
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 10258
Scope and Content Fragment of a cross-shaft found at Hallguards House, Dumfries and Galloway Survey work by RCAHMS archaeologists in 1993 discovered a fragment of 8th-century Anglian sculpture in the garden of Hallguards House. Each of the four faces of the cross-shaft fragment are relatively well-preserved, and bear finely-executed plant-scroll carving. Visible on this face, the obverse, are berry bunches, vine-scroll and leaf-fronds. The carvings date to the 8th century, a period when the Angles of Northumbria settled across lowland Scotland and Cumbria. Along with the settlers came monasteries and churches where finely carved free-standing crosses were produced. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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