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Object type: Supposed 'runic' cross
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 150
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Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived)
Rimmer (1875, 94) records that 'At one time it is said that a Runic cross stood in the village of Bromboro (sic) ... but the only cross which is now standing was built about the year 1400'. No carving with runes now survives at Bromborough, nor is any such inscription recorded in the British Museum photographs which show fragments from the site which were later destroyed (see p. 52). It is possible that Rimmer's informants were referring to the cross (nos. 1–3 above) found in the 1864 restoration of the church, since the term 'runic' could also, at that date, refer to interlacing ornament (Page 1995, 175).
