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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 626017, member: 8267&quot;]My point was that the ring cross style, probably brought by the Irish, appears in many areas of the British Isles as early as the 6th century. If the image on the stone is a cross (to be determined), its closest comparative would be a ring cross. As there is no date for it, it could be pre-Danelaw, Danelaw, or post Danelaw. (It was [USER=10171]@Dawnno[/USER]&#039;s hypothesis that the stone was found in the Danelaw, and dating to that period, with comparisons to Manx stones.) All prior traditions were not eliminated by the imposition of Danish rule. There is at least one example of a high cross (with ring) from Cumbria (in the Danelaw) dating to the 10th century that shows a mixture of Irish-inspired Anglo-Saxon elements as well as Viking elements, the Gosforth cross:</p><p><img src="https://www.britainexpress.com/images/attractions/editor3/Gosforth-0018.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And, quoting a Wikipedia article on high crosses (with appropriate caveats):</p><p>&quot;After the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Viking.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Viking.html" rel="nofollow">Viking</a> invasions, the settled <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Norse_language.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Norse_language.html" rel="nofollow">Norse</a> population of the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Danelaw.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Danelaw.html" rel="nofollow">Danelaw</a> adopted the [Celtic cross] form, and a number of crosses combine Christian imagery with pagan <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Sagas.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Sagas.html" rel="nofollow">Norse myths</a>, which the Church seems to have tolerated, and adopted at least as metaphors for the period when conversion was bedding down.&quot; </p><p><a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/High_cross.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/High_cross.html" rel="nofollow">https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/High_cross.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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