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Identify this Celtic cross?

  • 01-10-2018 1:08pm
    #1
    tv3tg4
    Registered Users Posts: 519 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering if anyone has information regarding this symbol?

    It is probably a Celtic cross.


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  • #2
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,021 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    It's a Saxon or Canterbury Cross. A Celtic cross has straight, or very slightly splayed, arms, not arms with a wide, curved splay like this. More to the point, the arms don't have curved ends suggesting of a circle; the cross involves an actual circle, and the arms pass through it, and have straight ends.


  • #3
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Or Knights of Malta?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_patt%C3%A9e


  • #4
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,021 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Or Knights of Malta?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_patt%C3%A9e
    Nope. The Maltese cross has eight points, two on each arm, formed by having a little triangular indent at the end of each arm. On the Saxon/Canterbury cross the arms bulge outwards, not inwards, and the bulge is curved, not straight.


  • #5
    tv3tg4
    Registered Users Posts: 519 ✭✭✭tv3tg4


    Many thanks. This cross is on my grandfather's headstone and I often wondered if it was Celtic.

    Many thanks for all the information.


  • #6
    jdmurf
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭jdmurf


    I think it is St. Cuthbert's cross......


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