Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-slab

HER Number:
1209

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-slab

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Cross

General Period:
Early Medieval

Specific Period:
C7-C8

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Cross-slab, in two pieces, in coarse-grained massive yellow sandstone. One is 86.4 cm high x 53 cm wide; the other 14 cm high x 58.5 cm wide x 55 cm deep. Together they are part of an incomplete upright slab, originally fashioned in 3 parts from re-used Roman stones. The upper part of the cross is missing; the horizontal arms survive on the side of a Roman inscribed stone. In the lower quadrants of the cross is Latin inscription in seriffed Anglo-Saxon capitals: ((INHO)) // ((CSI.- GVLA // R((- NOVI // TAR((E.- DITVR // MVN((DO- Restored to IN HOC SINGULARI SIGNO VITA REDDITUR MUNDO (In this unique sign life is restored to the world). There are also traces of a Roman inscription.

Easting:
3388

Northing:
6522

Grid Reference:
NZ33886522

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1209 >> J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, II, 62-4 M.A. Richardson, 1842, Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, II, 293-4 and fig. G.F. Browne, 1886, On inscriptions at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XI, 27-8 C.C. Hodges, in W. Page, ed. 1905, Anglo-Saxon remains, Victoria County History, Durham,I, 234 J.D. Rose, 1911, Notes on the cross-slab at St. Paul's, Jarrow, Antiquities of Sunderland, XII H.H. Howorth, 1914, The great crosses of the seventh century in northern England, Archaeological Journal, LXXI, 47 W. Levinson, 1943, The inscription on the Jarrow cross, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXI, 121-6 E. Okasha, 1971, Hand-list of Anglo-Saxon Non-runic Inscriptions, 86-7, pl. 63 J. Higgitt, 1979, The dedication inscription at Jarrow and its context, Antiquaries Journal, LIX, 360-1, 363-4, pl. 62A R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol.I,Part1,pp.112-13,pls.95(518),96,97(521)(Jarrow 16a-b)