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| cross, Anthorn | ||
| Anthorn Cross | ||
| locality:- | Anthorn | |
| civil parish:- | Bowness (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | cross | |
| coordinates:- | NY18945758 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1857 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY15 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 21) |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Cross (Remains of)" |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- placename:- Broken Cross item:- cross |
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| source data:- | Drawing, Anthorn, The Broken Cross, Bowness, Cumberland, by William Gershom Collingwood,
1899. click to enlargePR0814.jpg Sketch of a broken cross standing upon a grassy mound beside the shore. 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; opposite p.7. inscribed & initialled &dated at bottom left:- "Anthorn The Broken Cross W.G.C. May 9 1899" item:- Tullie House Museum : 1902.18.8 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Calverley 1899 item:- cross; Broken Cross |
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| source data:- | By the shore on a green mound:- click to enlargeCV1004.jpg Sketch by W G Collingwood. The 'broken cross' is said to mark the location of a battle with the Scots. item:- JandMN : 190 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Anthorn Cross |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "ANTHORN CROSS / / / BOWNESS / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71890 / NY1895857588" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Cross. Probably medieval. Red sandstone. Rough, cross-shaped stone set into the ground, too weathered to determine its original shape. It has been suggested that this marks the site of a battle with the Scots, but as there was a similar cross, Fishers' Cross, at Port Carlisle, this suggests that these were coastal crosses erected to guide fishermen along an otherwise featureless and flat coastline." |
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