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Rude stone monuments in all countries : their age and uses (1872)

Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · London, J. Murray · leaf 513

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off from all connexion with St. Thomass mission or thatof the early apostles, even assuming that the records of these areauthentic. My impression is that this form of cross was not intro-duced as an out-of-doors self-standing sign till, say, the sixth orseventh century.1 On the other hand, it is… … Dolmen with Cross in Nirranl Jur east as China, and extending in a continuous chain westward asfar at least as the Caspian;2 and there seems to be no difficulty 1 An elaborate paper by the Eev. Mr.Joyce, in the Archaeological Journal,108, 1870, shows, I think clearly, thatthese crosses could not be…

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