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THE exhibition of photographs of stone crosses and other forms of Celtic and Saxon sculptural art in stone now on view in the Iron Age Gallery of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) is an indication of the remarkable wealth of this material still surviving, which, in its mass, is something of a revelation even to the expert. The indefatigable labours of the late Romilly Allen, Baldwin Brown and W. G. Colling-wood, the last-named more particularly in the north of England, have made known to archaeologists the extent and value of this class of evidence, especially as afforded by the stone cross, in the interpretation of racial and cultural movement in the early historic period of Britain; but the work of the survey initiated by the Department of British Antiquities of the Museum some eighteen months ago, in which the assistance of the layman and amateur student has been enlisted widely, has brought together a record of examples of the various classes of this art in the form of photographs, which is surprising. As a whole, it is claimed, probably with justice, that this collection of examples of Celtic and Saxon sculptural art is the finest in existence.
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Celtic and Saxon Art in Early England. Nature 139, 791 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139791b0
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