Tynemouth Priory, Anglo-Saxon cross arm
Tynemouth Priory, Anglo-Saxon cross arm
HER Number
127
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Tynemouth Priory, Anglo-Saxon cross arm
Place
Tynemouth
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
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
A Cross arm in coarse-grained, red/yellow sandstone. In fairly good condition with some decoration in abstract designs. It has been dated to the late 9th or early 10th centuries. It was probably donated to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle in 1855, having been found in excavations in the priory in 1853.
Easting
437300
Northing
569400
Grid Reference
NZ437300569400
Sources
<< HER 127 >> Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1858, 1, I, 91, no. 13
J.R. Boyle, 1887, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, II, 22, no. 3
H.H.E. Craster, 1907, Northumberland County History, VIII, 134, fig. 2
G. Adcock, 1974, A study of the types of interlace on Northumbrian sculpture, Durham University Unpublished thesis, pp. 216-17, pl. 96
R.J. Cramp & R. Miket, 1982, Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon...Antiquities in Museum of Antiquities... no. 43
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus pf Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture Vol. I Part 1, p. 228, pl. 226, 1270-73 (Tynemouth 5)
J.R. Boyle, 1887, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, II, 22, no. 3
H.H.E. Craster, 1907, Northumberland County History, VIII, 134, fig. 2
G. Adcock, 1974, A study of the types of interlace on Northumbrian sculpture, Durham University Unpublished thesis, pp. 216-17, pl. 96
R.J. Cramp & R. Miket, 1982, Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon...Antiquities in Museum of Antiquities... no. 43
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus pf Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture Vol. I Part 1, p. 228, pl. 226, 1270-73 (Tynemouth 5)