A Viking-Age hogback, recently discovered in the Wirral, is the smallest known example of this type of stone monument and forms part of a marked concentration of tenth-and eleventh-century carvings around the beach market at Meols. Its elaborate decoration is not only allusively Christian but visually asserts an identity with Hiberno-Norse groups in north Yorkshire.
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British Museum, European Early Medieval Collect, Dept Britain Europe & Prehist, Great Russell St, London WC1B 3DG, EnglandBritish Museum, European Early Medieval Collect, Dept Britain Europe & Prehist, Great Russell St, London WC1B 3DG, England