Old Photograph Ruthwell Cross Scotland

Old photograph of Ruthwell Cross located in Ruthwell village on the Solway Firth, Scotland. In 1818, Reverend Henry Duncan, a local Minister, restored the Ruthwell Cross, one of the finest Anglo-Saxon crosses in the United Kingdom, now in Ruthwell church, which had been broken up in the Scottish Reformation. This cross is remarkable for its sculpture and inscriptions in Latin and Old English, some in Anglo-Saxon runes, which include excerpts from The Dream of the Rood, an Old English poem.

Old photograph of Ruthwell Chursch located in Ruthwell village on the Solway Firth, Scotland.

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