MAKE A MEME View Large Image Creeton Saxon Stone West Face.jpg Anglo-Saxon/Romanesque carving on free-standing slab at St Peter's church Creeton Lincolnshire UK The stone was found when taking down the old walls of Creeton church in 1856-57 The slightly tapered stone ...
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Keywords: Creeton Saxon Stone West Face.jpg Anglo-Saxon/Romanesque carving on free-standing slab at St Peter's church Creeton Lincolnshire UK The stone was found when taking down the old walls of Creeton church in 1856-57 The slightly tapered stone standing 1 66 m tall has been variously described as part of a Saxon cross-shaft or a grave cover in which case it would have originally laid flat This photo shows only the west-facing face of the slab Its east face bore a similar design but it was partly cut away when the stone was used as a lintel The northern face originally the top is wider and has a complex pattern of two large roundels consisting of two concentric rings of saltire crosses around a central flat disk; between the roundels are two panels of saltire crosses The style of this carving suggests that this face of the stone was re-cut in the 12th century possibly at the time that it was used as a lintel According to http //www crsbi ac uk/search/county/site/ed-li-creet html CRSBI The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland the slab is one of the most complete examples of the Anglo-Saxon Mid-Kesteven type of grave cover in Lincolnshire own My own digital photograph 24 October 2008 2008-10-24 SiGarb Own work all rights released This version of the image is in the Public Domain If it is used outside Wikipedia a photographer's credit Simon Garbutt would be appreciated This is a resized and slightly edited version of the original 2448 x 3264 pixels image I retain all rights to the original image and any other images that may be derived from it 52 46 0 9 N 0 29 51 9 W Anglo-Saxon crosses St Peter Creeton
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