id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9717 Ruthwell Cross - Wikipedia .html text/html 3259 332 75 The Ruthwell cross features the largest figurative reliefs found on any surviving Anglo-Saxon cross—which are virtually the largest surviving Anglo-Saxon reliefs of any sort—and has inscriptions in both Latin and, unusually for a Christian monument, the runic alphabet, the latter containing lines similar to lines 39–64 of Dream of the Rood, an Old English poem, which were possibly added at a later date. In his 1998 essay, "Rethinking the Ruthwell Monument: Fragments and Critique; Tradition and History; Tongues and Sockets," scholar Fred Orton discusses a note Reginald Bainbrigg wrote to William Camden in 1600 for possible publication in any new edition of his 1586 Britannia: "Bainbrigg saw a 'column' which he referred to as a 'cross,'" Orton said of the note.[15] Orton is also convinced the piece is made of two different types of stone: "... ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9717.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9717.txt