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High Aketon Cross, Bromfield
High Aketon Cross
locality:-   High Aketon
civil parish:-   Bromfield (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   cross
1Km square:-   NY2043
10Km square:-   NY24
evidence:-   old print:- Calverley 1899
item:-  cross; High Aketon; St Mungo, Bromfield
source data:-   In a wall in the farmyard, High Aketon:-
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Photograph by W L Fletcher. 
Believed to have been taken from the ruins of the Crookdale Chapel at St Mungo, Bromfield. 
item:-  JandMN : 190
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old drawing:- 
item:-  cross
source data:-   Drawing, Cross head at Bromfield, at High Ackerton, Bromfield, Cumberland, by William Gershom Collingwood, about 1899.
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Sketch of a cross head; the arms of the cross pass through a circular band ornamented with plaitwork. The head has beeen broken from the shaft close beneath the circle. 
Drawn to illustrate Notes on the Early Sculptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carlisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, published by T Wilson, Kendal 1899; but not used. 
initialled at bottom left:-  "W.G.C"
inscribed at bottom centre:-  "Cross-head at Bromfield."
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1902.18.2
Image © Tullie House Museum
observation:-  
 The two drawings of this cross do not match?
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