littlemissdani · F
This is 100% a guess (i've not been to Peterborough Cathedral since I was about 6 and I don't remember it!), but there are 6 guys with halos:-
Assuming there are another 6 guys on the other side, could they be the 12 Apostles? (Presumably with St Matthias instead of Judas)
Assuming there are another 6 guys on the other side, could they be the 12 Apostles? (Presumably with St Matthias instead of Judas)
ArishMell · 70-79, M
Oddly, your image of it has been deleted, but I found it on an archaeological website apparently called "The Megalithic Portal", and wrongly calling the Early Medieval [sic] period the "Dark Ages".
Despite that unpromising introduction the site does seem a genuine historical magazine, not one fostering tuppeny-ha'penny fantasies.
The stone is also pictured and described on the Peterborough Local History Society web-site.
Both state the figures are Christian saints, and it was carved sometime in the 10th or 11th Centuries.
Nothing mysterious except perhaps in detail (the identities of the figures) - simply a very early English (Saxon) Christian carving that has luckily survived to this day!
Despite that unpromising introduction the site does seem a genuine historical magazine, not one fostering tuppeny-ha'penny fantasies.
The stone is also pictured and described on the Peterborough Local History Society web-site.
Both state the figures are Christian saints, and it was carved sometime in the 10th or 11th Centuries.
Nothing mysterious except perhaps in detail (the identities of the figures) - simply a very early English (Saxon) Christian carving that has luckily survived to this day!
SW-User
@ArishMell This is Leicester University’s interpretation.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@SW-User Thank you for completing the credit.
ElwoodBlues · M
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It may be as early as 570AD.
Though recent research suggests it’s much later 870AD
Various claims have been made. Again the most recent is it depicts twelve monks who were slaughtered.
Who know?
Much older than Peterborough cathedral though.
Though recent research suggests it’s much later 870AD
Various claims have been made. Again the most recent is it depicts twelve monks who were slaughtered.
Who know?
Much older than Peterborough cathedral though.
Jacko1971 · 51-55, M
I haven't noticed it. Next time I'm in town I shall have to take a look.
BohemianBabe · M
Odin's boys.
Dave1955 · 61-69, M
@BohemianBabe One Thor and five Loki's !