Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon architectural fragment

HER Number:
1226

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon architectural fragment

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Architecture

Site Type: Broad:
Architectural Fragment

Site Type: Specific:
Architectural Fragment

General Period:
Early Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A decorated fragment of stone, 16.5 cm high x 15.2 cm wide x 7 cm deep, in medium to coarse-grained yellow sandstone. A corner fragment, edged by double cable divided by an incised line. The lower surface is rough, the upper smooth, and "a long projection penetrates the border". Its date is uncertain. It was found in 1971 in archaeological excavation of the robber trench of the west wall of the Norman east claustral range. Appears more like Roman than Saxon work. Perhaps the corner of a grave slab.

Easting:
3391

Northing:
6520

Grid Reference:
NZ33916520

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1226 >> R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Part 1, pp. 121-2, pl. 107 (582-3, 587-8)(Jarrow33