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Discusses the implications of style and ideology in the context of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle monuments in Northumbria. Ways in which national identity in eighth-century Northumbria can be theorized as visual and bound in the quotidian and the local; Effect of a complex mixture of secular and ecclesiastical, economic and political vectors; Study of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture; Runes inscribed on the monuments.

Offers discussion on the Ruthwell Cross, constructed between 1802 and 1823, which is located in the Garden of the Ruthwell Manse, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. What cross depicts; Significance of cross; Type of stone used in its construction; Detailed historical background on the cross.