Sheffield Cross
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Sheffield Cross
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The Sheffield Cross is an Anglo-Saxon cross, dating from the early ninth century. It is the shaft of a stone high cross that was rediscovered hollowed out and in use as a quenching trough in a cutler's workshop in the Park district of Sheffield. John Walter Staniforth removed the cross and kept it in his garden, before it was later donated to the British Museum in 1924, where it is now kept. The shaft is carved with a vine motif, a figure with a bow and arrow placed amidst the tendrils; similar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Cross
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2023-10-28T21:10:07Z
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