Jahrhundert stammen, als Ruthwell, in Dumfries and Galloway gelegen, durch Eroberungen des christlichen Königs Eadberht (737–758) Teil des angelsächsischen Königreiches Northumbria in Schottland war. ###>The Ruthwell Cross is a stone Anglo-Saxon cross probably dating from the 8th century, when Ruthwell was part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria; it is now in Scotland.