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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 | General View of Right side of Cross shaft. (north, now east side) |
| 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 round the panels on the four faces. |
| GeneralDescription | Right side: the shaft is divided into two panels containing scroll foliage with birds and beasts involved in the scrolls and eating the fruit. Around the panels is a runic inscription. |
| GeneralDescription | Sententia 1: top and right border |
| GeneralDescription | [+ OND]GEREDÆ HINÆ GOD ALME3TTIG.ÞA HE WALDE ON GALGU GISTIGA |
| GeneralDescription | Almighty God stripped himself when he wished to mount the gallows |
| GeneralDescription | MODIG F[OR ALLÆ] MEN |
| GeneralDescription | Brave in the sight of all men |
| GeneralDescription | [BUGA] ic ne dorstæ |
| GeneralDescription | I dared not bow |
| GeneralDescription | Sententia 2: left border |
| GeneralDescription | [AHOF] IC RIICNÆ KYNINGC [.] |
| GeneralDescription | I [raised aloft] a powerful king. |
| GeneralDescription | HEAFUNES H[L]AFARD HÆLDA IC N DORSTÆ |
| GeneralDescription | The Lord of Heaven I dared not tilt |
| GeneralDescription | [B]ISMÆRE[D]U UNGKET MEN BA ÆT[G]AD[RE I]C [WÆS M]IÞ BLOD BIST[E]MI[D] |
| GeneralDescription | Men insulted the pair of us together I was drenched with blood |
| GeneralDescription | BI goten of þæs guman sida |
| GeneralDescription | poured from the man's side |
