Tyne and Wear HER(88): Monkwearmouth, Anglo-Saxon cross-arm - Details
88
Sunderland
Monkwearmouth, Anglo-Saxon cross-arm
Monkwearmouth
NZ45NW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Cross
Early Medieval
C8
Find
Fragment of a cross-arm, in medium-grained micaceous yellow sandstone, found in 1966 during archaeological excavations. Only a fragment of one carved face survives, and part of the edge, broken but unworn, and finely dressed. The fragment is 10 cm high x 13 cm wide x 5.5 cm deep. Considered to be early 8th century in origin
402
578
NZ402578
<< HER 88 >> R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Part 1, p. 122, plate 107, 590-1 (Monkwearmouth 1)