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Extract from the Ruthwell Travel Guides:
From Caerlaverock, it's about seven miles east along the B725 to the village of
RUTHWELL
whose modest country church houses the remarkable eighteen-foot
Ruthwell Cross
(the keys are kept at one of the houses at the foot of the lane; look out for the information notice). An extraordinary early Christian monument from the early or mid-eighth century when Galloway was ruled by the Northumbrians, the cross was considered idolatrous during the Reformation, smashed to pieces and buried. Only in the nineteenth century was the cross finally reassembled and given its own purpose-built semicircular apse. The decoration on the...
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