wheel cross

The head of a wheel cross dating from the 10th or 11th century has been recovered.

A war memorial in the form of a step-based wheel cross.

It shows a "crudely carved" figure on a wheel cross, and is probably from the 13th century.

Built into the wall of the chancel is a Saxon wheel cross.

It is a wheel cross, with a Celtic-style carving.

There is an imposing unornamented wheel cross at top of the graveyard, possibly 10th century.

A pillar topped by a wheel cross.

The solar wheel cross and the phallus.

The Celtic cross is sometimes called the wheel cross because of the circle at the center connecting the beams.

The decoration consists of a central wheel cross in relief, with inlaid gold pressed into a waffle form.

Front view of a wheeled cross design, 'ihs' and the lamb of god depicted on opposite faces.

The memorial comprises a wheel cross with Celtic lettering under which the names of the dead are listed on two tablets.

The Houelt Cross is a striking example of a Celtic wheel cross.

Just as the Cross evolved from the Chrismonogram, so did the early Welsh wheel cross.

The Sampson Cross is 2.15 meters high, and was probably once capped by a wheel cross, which is now missing.

This symbol is known as the wheel cross, sun cross, Odin's cross or Woden's cross.

It lies in woodland close to the parish boundary, and features an incised wheeled cross, the style of which suggests it dates from 7th to 9th century.

The village hall was built as a memorial after World War I, as was a wheel cross monument which stands at a junction in the village.

The other memorial is a Celtic style wheel cross in memory of H.G Palmer who died in 1917 during World War One.

The Celts in the Bronze Age used an ancient four-spoked wheel design called a sun cross or wheel cross to represent the chariot of the sun.

At Margam, visitors can see examples of Christian memorials from the sub-Roman era through to the hugely impressive cart wheel crosses of the late 10th and 11th centuries.

A sun cross (also solar cross, wheel cross) is the term for a symbol consisting of an equilateral cross inside a circle when considered as a solar symbol.

The crosses that these shafts bore were wheel crosses, where the arms of the cross broadened from the centre, as can be seen from the remains of the bottom arm and "hub".

The broken head of a wheel cross dated to the 10th or 11th centuries was found part way down the hill and may have been the head of the cross that stood on the summit.