High cross
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A high cross, or standing cross, is a free-standing Christian cross made of stone, often richly decorated. There was a unique early medieval tradition in Ireland and Great Britain of raising large scu
Muiredach's High Cross, Monasterboice, 9th or 10th century
A simpler example, Culdaff, County Donegal, Ireland
Three views of the Northumbrian Easby Cross of 800–820
King Doniert's Stone in East Cornwall, ninth century
Anglo-Saxon art
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Anglo-Saxon art covers art produced within the Anglo-Saxon period of English history, beginning with the Migration period style that the Anglo-Saxons brought with them from the continent in the 5th ce
Shoulder-clasps from Sutton Hoo, early 7th century
11th century walrus ivory cross reliquary (Victoria & Albert Museum)
Bird from the Sutton Hoo shield (part replica)
The evangelist portrait and Incipit to Matthew from the Stockholm Codex Aureus, one of the "Tiberius group", show the Northumbrian Insular and classicising continental styles that combined and competed in early Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. It was probably made in Canterbury.