Tyne and Wear HER(128): Tynemouth ?, incomplete Anglo-Saxon cross-head - Details
128
N Tyneside
Tynemouth ?, incomplete Anglo-Saxon cross-head
Tynemouth
NZ36NE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Cross
Early Medieval
C9
Find
An incomplete cross-head in medium-grained, reddish sandstone. It condition is good and it is decorated with various abstract designs. It has been dated to the late 9th or early 10th centuries. It was donated to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle by C.J. Spence of North Shields in 1885-6, having been obtained by him at the disposal of the collection of G. Rippon of North Shields in 1864. No details of the find-spot are known.
370
694
NZ370694
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