Monkwearmouth, Anglo-Saxon architectural fragment

The end fragment of a curving decorative strip in local dolomite, 6 cm high x 4.4. cm wide x 2.3 cm deep. One surface is smoothly polished and deeply incised with 2 parallel lines. The stone could relate to other fragments found locally (e.g. HER nos. 401-410). It was found in 1966 and is thought to date to between the 7th and 8th centuries A.D.