attempts have been made to interpret them. One such reads it as: "thissig be(a)cn thun set(t)on hwa(e)tred waethgar alwfwolthu aft alcfrithu ean kuining eac oswiuing gebid heo sinna sawhula" "This slender pillar Hwætred, Wæthgar, and Alwfwold set up in memory of Alcfrith, a king and son of Oswiu. Pray for their sins, their souls". possibly referring to Egfrid, son of Oswy and brother of Alhfrith (also Alchfrith or Ealhfrith), who ascended to the throne in 670. Replica A replica of the cross, including a guess at the missing part, is in the churchyard of the neo-Romanesque St Mary's Church at Wreay near Carlisle. The Wreay cross differs in style and detail from the original and has been described as a "reinvention". Gallery See also Easby Cross in the Victoria and Albert Museum, with Bewcastle and Ruthwell the best preserved Northumbrian cross Anglo-Saxon art Gosforth Cross Notes References Cook, Albert Stanburrough, ed. (1914). Some Accounts of the Bewcastle Cross Between the Years 1607 and 1861 H. Holt and Company. Cook, Albert Stanburrough (1912) The Date of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses. Yale University Press. Ó Carragaáin, Éamonn, Christian Inculturation in Eighth-Century Northumbria: The Bewcastle and Ruthwell Crosses, Colloquium Magazine, Vol 4, Autumn 2007, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, online text, with many photographs Page, Raymond I. (1960) "William Nicolson, F.R.S., and the Runes of the Bewcastle Cross", Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 14, pp. 184–90 Pevsner, Nikolaus (1967) The buildings of England – Cumberland and Westmorland. Penguin Books. Schapiro, Meyer, Selected Papers, volume 3, Late Antique, Early Christian and Mediaeval Art, 1980, Chatto & Windus, London, (includes The Religious Meaning of the Ruthwell Cross (1944), etc.) Thomson, David, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150718095031/http://www.bewcastle.com/cross.htm Bewcastle information page; ‘The Bewcastle Falconer-Evangelist’, JBAA 161 (2008), 1–23 Wilson, David M. (1984). Anglo-Saxon Art: From The Seventh Century To The Norman Conquest, Thames and Hudson (US edn. Overlook Press). Anglo-Saxon runes Anglo-Saxon art Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England Archaeological sites in Cumbria High crosses in England Runic inscriptions 7th-century inscriptions 8th-century inscriptions Monumental crosses in England Monuments and memorials in Cumbria Jesus in art John the Baptist in art