A RECENT DISCOVERY of pieces from a major pre-Conquest cross at Louth in east Lincolnshire has prompted not just a description and assessment of the stone sculpture, but exploration of the evolution of the early monastery and town itself. It is suggested that the monument was erected as an emblematic market cross, which marked the bishop of Lindsey’s mid-10th-century promotion of a market and market town at Louth, as part of his effort to re-establish himself in the region after the Viking land-taking and its English reconquest. Our analysis has wider significance than the art history of the sculpture alone, and demonstrates the potential of the large body of early stone sculpture now made more accessible through the publication of corpora in Britain.

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'Markitte Stede 中的十字架'。劳斯十字架、它的修道院和它的城镇

最近在东林肯郡劳斯发现的一个主要征服前十字架的碎片不仅促使人们对石雕进行描述和评估，而且还促使人们探索早期修道院和城镇本身的演变。有人建议将该纪念碑竖立为具有象征意义的市场十字架，这标志着 Lindsey 主教在 10 世纪中叶在劳斯推广市场和集镇，作为他在该地区重建自己的努力的一部分维京人的土地征用及其英国人的重新征服。我们的分析比单独的雕塑艺术史具有更广泛的意义，并证明了通过在英国出版语料库现在更容易获得大量早期石雕的潜力。