M0004203: Shaft crosses from Ramsbury and Shaftesbury, England

Date:
March 1935
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/34/47
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M0004203: Shaft crosses from Ramsbury and Shaftesbury, England. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A reproduction of a photograph of two shaft crosses. One from Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England and one is a fragment from Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset, England. A shaft cross is a specific type of Latin or High cross, named after its method of construction. It is usually made from stone and has a more elaborate and usually higher form of the simple stone cross.

Publication/Creation

March 1935

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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