Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft
HER Number
999
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft
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
Part of a cross-shaft, now lost. Raine recorded two portions of cross with fretwork built into the north face of the tower in 1858 (sic). Bo. yle in 1885 said the two fragments were still in the north wallThe dimensions are given as 30.5 cm high x 25.5 cm wide. A drawing shows two registers of interlace enclosed in a moulding.
Easting
433870
Northing
565220
Grid Reference
NZ433870565220
Sources
<< HER 999 >> J. Raine, 1854, The Inventories...of Jarrow and Monkwearmouth... Surtees Society, XXIX, xxviii
W.H.D. Longstaffe, 1858, Durham before the Conquest, Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute Newcastle, 82
J. Stuart, 1867, Sculptured Stones of Scotland, II, 44, pl. lxxxii
J.R. Boyle, 1880, On the monastery and church of St. Paul, Jarrow, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, X, 209
J.R. Boyle, 1892, The County of Durham, 587
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Part 1, p. 108, pl. 92 (491) (Jarrow 5)
W.H.D. Longstaffe, 1858, Durham before the Conquest, Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute Newcastle, 82
J. Stuart, 1867, Sculptured Stones of Scotland, II, 44, pl. lxxxii
J.R. Boyle, 1880, On the monastery and church of St. Paul, Jarrow, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, X, 209
J.R. Boyle, 1892, The County of Durham, 587
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Part 1, p. 108, pl. 92 (491) (Jarrow 5)