Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-slab
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-slab
HER Number
1209
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-slab
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
Cross-slab, in two pieces, in coarse-grained massive yellow sandstone. One is 86.4 cm high x 53 cm wide; the other 14 cm high x 58.5 cm wide x 55 cm deep. Together they are part of an incomplete upright slab, originally fashioned in 3 parts from re-used Roman stones. The upper part of the cross is missing; the horizontal arms survive on the side of a Roman inscribed stone. In the lower quadrants of the cross is Latin inscription in seriffed Anglo-Saxon capitals: ((INHO)) // ((CSI.- GVLA // R((- NOVI // TAR((E.- DITVR // MVN((DO- Restored to IN HOC SINGULARI SIGNO VITA REDDITUR MUNDO (In this unique sign life is restored to the world). There are also traces of a Roman inscription.
Easting
433880
Northing
565220
Grid Reference
NZ433880565220
Sources
<< HER 1209 >> J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, II, 62-4
M.A. Richardson, 1842, Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, II, 293-4 and fig.
G.F. Browne, 1886, On inscriptions at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XI, 27-8
C.C. Hodges, in W. Page, ed. 1905, Anglo-Saxon remains, Victoria County History, Durham,I, 234
J.D. Rose, 1911, Notes on the cross-slab at St. Paul's, Jarrow, Antiquities of Sunderland, XII
H.H. Howorth, 1914, The great crosses of the seventh century in northern England, Archaeological Journal, LXXI, 47
W. Levinson, 1943, The inscription on the Jarrow cross, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXI, 121-6
E. Okasha, 1971, Hand-list of Anglo-Saxon Non-runic Inscriptions, 86-7, pl. 63
J. Higgitt, 1979, The dedication inscription at Jarrow and its context, Antiquaries Journal, LIX, 360-1, 363-4, pl. 62A
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol.I,Part1,pp.112-13,pls.95(518),96,97(521)(Jarrow 16a-b)
M.A. Richardson, 1842, Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, II, 293-4 and fig.
G.F. Browne, 1886, On inscriptions at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XI, 27-8
C.C. Hodges, in W. Page, ed. 1905, Anglo-Saxon remains, Victoria County History, Durham,I, 234
J.D. Rose, 1911, Notes on the cross-slab at St. Paul's, Jarrow, Antiquities of Sunderland, XII
H.H. Howorth, 1914, The great crosses of the seventh century in northern England, Archaeological Journal, LXXI, 47
W. Levinson, 1943, The inscription on the Jarrow cross, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXI, 121-6
E. Okasha, 1971, Hand-list of Anglo-Saxon Non-runic Inscriptions, 86-7, pl. 63
J. Higgitt, 1979, The dedication inscription at Jarrow and its context, Antiquaries Journal, LIX, 360-1, 363-4, pl. 62A
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol.I,Part1,pp.112-13,pls.95(518),96,97(521)(Jarrow 16a-b)