We have reached the position where all these enquiries end because, no matter how thin the evidence or unlikely the circumstances, somebody once declared this to be Anglo-Saxon and everybody else has cited this person, or one another, ever since. It’s in all the books! Professor Bailey himself acknowledges the whole thing rests solely and entirely on artistic interpretation of what is, or is not, tenth century. He does not acknowledge a) there is not a single securely dated example of this kind of tenth century art, or b) anybody at any time can carve a cross of ancient style. You can order a zoomorphic ornament with Borre-related knotwork for your own tombstone from any monumental mason. It’s in all the pattern books! With the bonus that somebody might one day declare you were a tenth century Anglo-Saxon.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road