Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-head
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-head
HER Number
1202
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-head
Place
Jarrow
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Religious House
Site Type: Specific
Cross
General Period
EARLY MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Early Medieval 410 to 1066
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Two pieces of probably the same cross head, one being the centre, 18 cm high x 18 cm wide, the other the left horizontal arm, 16 cm high x 24 cm wide x 11.5 cm deep. In medium coarse-grained yellow sandstone. The centre comprises a plain central boss surrounded by zigzag inside flat-band moulding, while the arm comprises roll moulding enclosing ornament which spreads out in wedge-shape. Found in 1971 in archaeological excavations on the monastic site.
Easting
433900
Northing
565200
Grid Reference
NZ433900565200
Sources
<< HER 1202 >> R.J. Cramp in D.P. Kirby, ed. 1974, St. Wilfrid at Hexham, 136, pl. 22 (Jarrow 9)
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Part 1, p. 109, fig. 12, pl. 93 (497-9)(Jarrow 8,9)
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Part 1, p. 109, fig. 12, pl. 93 (497-9)(Jarrow 8,9)