Hogback (sculpture)
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Hogbacks are stone carved Anglo-Scandinavian style sculptures from 10th- to 12th-century northern England and south-west Scotland. Singular hogbacks were found in Ireland and Wales. Hogbacks fell out
A hogback in Dalserf Churchyard in South Lanarkshire, Scotland; the stone was found on the site in 1897. The patterned carvings are thought to represent wooden roof shingles.
Hogbacks conserved in St Mary's Church, Gosforth, Cumbria
Hogbacks outside St Andrew's Church in Penrith, Cumbria.
Lanivet Coped Stone, Cornwall
Anglo-Scandinavian
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Anglo-Scandinavian is an academic term referring to the hybridisation between Norse and Anglo-Saxon cultures in Britain during the early medieval period. It remains a term and concept often used by hi
Hogback (sculpture)
…Hogbacks are stone carved Anglo-Scandinavian style sculptures from 10th- to 12th-century northern England and south-west Scotland. Singular hogbacks were found in Ireland and Wales. Hogbacks fell…
Shall Cross, one of 30 similar Anglo Scandinavian crosses in the Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire region.