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   From: flink@btinternet.com   
      
   "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
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   > > > "flink"  wrote in message   
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   > > > > Absolute crap. Celtic crosses were first manufactured at Chester,   
   and   
   > > > are a   
   > > > > variant of XP, the Greek for Chi Rho, the first two letters of   
   Christ.   
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   > > > How was this information verified?  Are you claiming Chester as the   
   > > > point of origin for all Celtic crosses?   
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   > > > Searles   
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   > > Verified by archeology old fruit! Chester, like Carlisle, was a great   
   > > Romano-British and Christian city, both these two cities guarded the   
   > > corridor between Acotland and Wales, i.e. Strathclyde or Ystradclwyd and   
   > > Powys.   
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   > I don't think he's asking for evidence that Chester and Carlisle existed.   
   > He's asking for evidence that 'Celtic crosses were first manufactured at   
   > Chester' which is what you claimed.  If it is so and is verified by   
   > archaeology then why don't you just give the references?   
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   > Allan   
      
   I  once read it in a library book. The book was about archeology. Chester   
   was once between Flintshire and Gobbinshire, which were both Welsh (Cymraeg)   
   speaking shires, and the masons of Chester used to carve these crosses based   
   on XP, chi rho.   
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