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| RecordAuthor | Orla Murphy |
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| ISODate | 2002-06-10 |
| Date | 12 June 2002 |
| PictureCredit | Jane Hawkes |
| County | Dumfriesshire |
| Townland | Ruthwell |
| OSMapRef | NV 103681 (310330, 568180) |
| Area | Scotland |
| GeneralContext | Left side of shaft, close-up. |
| Location | Church of Ruthwell |
| GeneralContext | Stone type: Red Sandstone |
| Dimensions | 17' high, shaft is 1'9'' wide at bottom and 1'1'' at the top, the head of the cross is 3'1'' wide, and the top arm is 9'' wide, the thickness is 1'6'' at the bottom to 9'' at the top. |
| GeneralDescription | The Ruthwell Cross has sculpture on its four faces and incised capitals and runes around the panels on the four faces. |
| GeneralDescription | Left side: the shaft is divided into two panels. These contain scroll foliage with birds and beasts involved in the scrolls and eating the fruit. Around these two panels are runes. The runis inscription for the entire left hand side reads: |
| GeneralDescription | Sententia 3 (top and right border) |
| GeneralDescription | [+] KRIS[T] WÆS ON RODI |
| GeneralDescription | Christ was on the Cross |
| GeneralDescription | HWEÞRÆ ÞER FUS[Æ] FEARRAN KW[O]MU |
| GeneralDescription | But eager ones came thither from afar |
| GeneralDescription | [Æ]ÞÞILÆ TIL ANUM IC ÞÆT AL BI[HEALD] |
| GeneralDescription | noble ones came thither, I beheld all that |
| GeneralDescription | SA[RÆ ]IC W[Æ]S MI[Þ] S[OR]GU[M] GIDROE[FI]D H[N]AG |
| GeneralDescription | I was terribly afflicted with sorrows. I bowed to the hands of men. |
| GeneralDescription | Sententia 4 (left border of the south (now west) side of the cross). |
| GeneralDescription | [M]IÞ S[T]RE[L]UM GEWUNDAD |
| GeneralDescription | Wounded with arrows |
| GeneralDescription | ALEGDUN HIÆ HINÆ LIMWOERIGNÆ GISTODDU[N] HIM [ÆT HIS LI]CÆS [HEA]F[DU]M |
| GeneralDescription | they laid him down, limbspent; they stood themselves at the shoulders of his corpse |
| GeneralDescription | [BIH]EA[LD]U[N H]I[Æ Þ]E[R] heafunes Dryctin |
| GeneralDescription | The they looked upon the lord of heaven |
