What is the Hedda Stone
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This curious object is AngloSaxan carving. Pretty unique. But what does it represent. It lurks in Peterborough cathedral.
This curious object is AngloSaxan carving. Pretty unique. But what does it represent. It lurks in Peterborough cathedral.
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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
