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St. Ewe is a village and parish in the Restormel district of mid-Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Evidence of early medieval habitation is in the form of a roadside celtic cross that once stood near Nunnery Hill. However the crosshead and shaft were thrown down in 1873 by a farmer looking for buried treasure in 1873, and both pieces were afterwards lost. The base has survived in situ with an inscription in insular script, unreadable except for the word crucem; Elizabth Okasha dates the construciton of this moment between the ninth and eleventh centuries.[1]
- ^ See the discussion and bibliography in Elisabeth Okasha, Corpus of early Christian inscibed stones of South-west Britain (Leicester: University Press, 1993), pp. 129-132
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