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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 625888, member: 8267"]The Gregorian mission to the south of England was in 596. Saint Columba, from the Irish church, came to Scotland in 563, founding an abbey on Iona. The monastery of Lindisfarne, on the opposite coast, was founded by the Irish Saint Aidan c. 634, and Irish Christiantity became the dominant form in Scotland and northern England, reaching as far south as Mercia. The 664 synod in Whitby, Northumbria, was held to create uniformity in the church practices between the southern Roman version and the northern Irish version.</p><p>The history of British Christianity aside, in my opinion the op's stone does not represent a cross - as I said it is unusually simplistic (I provided the other crosses by way of comparison). As we do not know the date of the op's stone, it becomes even more problematic to try to place it stylistically or culturally.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 625888, member: 8267"]The Gregorian mission to the south of England was in 596. Saint Columba, from the Irish church, came to Scotland in 563, founding an abbey on Iona. The monastery of Lindisfarne, on the opposite coast, was founded by the Irish Saint Aidan c. 634, and Irish Christiantity became the dominant form in Scotland and northern England, reaching as far south as Mercia. The 664 synod in Whitby, Northumbria, was held to create uniformity in the church practices between the southern Roman version and the northern Irish version. The history of British Christianity aside, in my opinion the op's stone does not represent a cross - as I said it is unusually simplistic (I provided the other crosses by way of comparison). As we do not know the date of the op's stone, it becomes even more problematic to try to place it stylistically or culturally.[/QUOTE]
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