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Andreas Cross Slab (Manx Cross 113)

Archaeology

This small slab was found in use as a lintel over a door in an outbuilding belonging to the rectory in 1886. It is broken along its length but is otherwise almost complete. Both faces show a long-shafted cross without circle. On one face only the outline of a cross can be traced; this is shorter than on the other side, and terminates in a stepped pedestal. The other face shows more of the outline of a cross, bearing the ghost of an interlace pattern, almost certainly ring-chain, on the shaft and traces of a plait in the panel to the right. The surviving part of one edge bears an incomplete runic inscription which translates as, '...erected this cross in memory of...'.

Andreas Rectory

Connections

Book Chapters

  • Parish: Andreas
  • Sheading: Ayre
  • Grid Ref: SC4141099450

Sources

  • Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record
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