#ancient cross

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Kilduncan Pictish and Early Medieval Cross Slab, St Andrews Museum, Fife, Scotland

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As the years go by, the birds invariably hum their songs in the most dreary places

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#OTD in 587 – St Brendan the Navigator, early transatlantic voyager, dies.

In 484 St. Brendan was born in Ciarraighe Luachra near the port of Tralee, in Co Kerry, in the province of Munster, in the South West of Ireland. He was baptised at Tubrid, near Ardfert, by Saint Erc. He spent his first year with his parents, then he went to the home of the local chieftain, Airde mac Fidaigh at Cathair Airde in Listrim, three miles to the East. He returned to his family at the…

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21st June 2023

Boskenna Cross is a lovely wayside cross perched on a modern base made of a granite roller with a milstone as it's base. It was rescued from the hedge in 1869 and has been moved a few times thanks to modern traffic finding it quite a fun target. It has carvings of a cross & Jesus on it's faces (common in wayside markers in Kernow).

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11th Century CE 'Carreg Fedyddiol', Ancient Cross Pedestal, Margam Stones Museum, Margam, nr. Port Talbot, Wales

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Reconstructed Early Medieval Cross, Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, Yorkshire

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10th Century CE 'Cross of Ilquici' Cartwheel Cross, Margam Stones Museum, Margam, nr. Port Talbot, Wales

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Depictions of Pictish Warriors, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh