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Caithness Field Club Bulletin |
Ruthwell Cross The Ruthwell Cross is within the Parish Kirk of Ruthwell in Dumfries-shire and is protected by the Ancient Monuments Act. Plaster casts of the cross have been made and set up in museums in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London.
All of it is so vivid and picturesque that "he who runs may read". Antiquarians have been puzzled to know how a country which had emerged from a rude and unlettered state could produce a work of such high artistic merit , so noble and skilful in conception and so devotional in treatment, but with the Christian faith came Christian art - set up in the latter part of the seventh century. |