Crucifixion, Rothbury Cross, Great North Museum

Crucifixion scene from the shaft of the Rothbury Cross, 600-1200 AD, the earliest known Rood in Britain, originally from Rothbury church, Northumberland, one of the finest surviving pieces of Anglo-Saxon sculpture from the Kingdom of Northumbria, now in the Great North Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. The cross forms part of the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne and is evidence of the importance of Christianity in post Roman Britain. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Anglo-saxon Antiquaries Crucifixion Halo Hancock Northumberland Northumbria Rood Rothbury Shaft Tyne Wound

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