Monkwearmouth, Anglo-Saxon grave slab of Hereberict (priest)
Monkwearmouth, Anglo-Saxon grave slab of Hereberict (priest)
HER Number
92
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Monkwearmouth, Anglo-Saxon grave slab of Hereberict (priest)
Place
Monkwearmouth
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Grave Marker
Site Type: Specific
Grave Slab
General Period
EARLY MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Early Medieval 410 to 1066
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
A grave-marker, or grave-cover, 104 cm high/long x 53 cm wide x 18 cm deep, in medium-grained, massive yellow sandstone. Broken top, side and base, but unworn. Decoration includes a centrally placed standing cross in high relief with, at the top, the remains of two wing-like features. In the quadrants of the cross is a Latin inscription in Anglo-Saxon capitals: HIC IN SEPULCRO REQUIESCIT CORPORE HEREBERICHT PR(ES)B(YTER) - "Here in the tomb rests Herebericht the priest in the body". The stone has been dated to the first quarter of the 8th century. It was found in a reused context during excavations in September 1866, face downwards above a medieval coffin in the west porch.
Easting
440200
Northing
557800
Grid Reference
NZ440200557800
Sources
<< HER 92 >> Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, 1862, St. Peter's Monkwearmouth, I, fig. 6
R.J. Johnson, 1866, St. Peter's, Monkwearmouth, Ecclesiologist, XXVII, 364
W. Greenwell & J.O. Westwood, 1869, Proceedings 5th March 1869, Archaeological Journal, XXVI, 282-3
M.H. Bloxam, 1877, On an ancient inscribed sepulchral slab, found at Monkwearmouth... Archaeological Journal, XXXIV, 298-300
J.R. Boyle, 1886, On the monastery and church of St. Peter, Monkwearmouth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XI, 51 pl. 6
G.F. Browne, 1886, On inscriptions at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth 2, Archaeologia Aeliana, XI, 30-2
G.F. Browne, 1886, Notes on...St. Peter, Monkwearmouth, and...the Sculptured Stones...
J.R. Boyle, 1892, The County of Durham, 544
C.C. Hodges, 1893, The pre-Conquest churches of Northumbria, Reliquary new series, VII, 147, fig. on 148
J. Patterson, 1901, Some Saxon remains at Monkwearmouth church, Antiquities of Sunderland II, 79-80, fig. 5,
C.C. Hodges in W. Page, ed. 1905, Anglo-Saxon Remains, Victoria County History, Durham, 234
J.E. Hodgkin, 1913, Durham, 200
W.G. Collingwood, 1927, Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age, 15, fig. 19
W. Levison, 1943, The inscription on the Jarrow cross, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXI, 121, pl. 3A.1
B. Colgrave, 1948, St. Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, X (for 1944-53), 192
N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England, County Durham, 187, 280
Radford, 1954, St. Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, C.A.R. Archarological Journal, CXI, 211
R. Hyslop, 1960, St. Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, 32 and fig.
B. Colgrave & R.J. Cramp, 1969, St. Peter's Church, Wearmouth Reprint, 23 and fig.
R.J. Cramp, 1965, Early Northumbrian Sculpture, Jarrow Lecture, 4
H.M. and J. Taylor, 1965, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, I, 444
E. Okasha, 1971, Hand-list of Anglo-Saxo Non-runic Inscriptions, 101, pl. 92
J. Higgitt, 1979, The dedication inscription at Jarrow and its context, Antiquaries Journal, LIX, 360-1, 363-5, pls. 62B, 63
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I Part 1, p. 124, pl. 110 604 (Monkwearmouth 5)
R.J. Johnson, 1866, St. Peter's, Monkwearmouth, Ecclesiologist, XXVII, 364
W. Greenwell & J.O. Westwood, 1869, Proceedings 5th March 1869, Archaeological Journal, XXVI, 282-3
M.H. Bloxam, 1877, On an ancient inscribed sepulchral slab, found at Monkwearmouth... Archaeological Journal, XXXIV, 298-300
J.R. Boyle, 1886, On the monastery and church of St. Peter, Monkwearmouth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XI, 51 pl. 6
G.F. Browne, 1886, On inscriptions at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth 2, Archaeologia Aeliana, XI, 30-2
G.F. Browne, 1886, Notes on...St. Peter, Monkwearmouth, and...the Sculptured Stones...
J.R. Boyle, 1892, The County of Durham, 544
C.C. Hodges, 1893, The pre-Conquest churches of Northumbria, Reliquary new series, VII, 147, fig. on 148
J. Patterson, 1901, Some Saxon remains at Monkwearmouth church, Antiquities of Sunderland II, 79-80, fig. 5,
C.C. Hodges in W. Page, ed. 1905, Anglo-Saxon Remains, Victoria County History, Durham, 234
J.E. Hodgkin, 1913, Durham, 200
W.G. Collingwood, 1927, Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age, 15, fig. 19
W. Levison, 1943, The inscription on the Jarrow cross, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXI, 121, pl. 3A.1
B. Colgrave, 1948, St. Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, X (for 1944-53), 192
N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England, County Durham, 187, 280
Radford, 1954, St. Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, C.A.R. Archarological Journal, CXI, 211
R. Hyslop, 1960, St. Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, 32 and fig.
B. Colgrave & R.J. Cramp, 1969, St. Peter's Church, Wearmouth Reprint, 23 and fig.
R.J. Cramp, 1965, Early Northumbrian Sculpture, Jarrow Lecture, 4
H.M. and J. Taylor, 1965, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, I, 444
E. Okasha, 1971, Hand-list of Anglo-Saxo Non-runic Inscriptions, 101, pl. 92
J. Higgitt, 1979, The dedication inscription at Jarrow and its context, Antiquaries Journal, LIX, 360-1, 363-5, pls. 62B, 63
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I Part 1, p. 124, pl. 110 604 (Monkwearmouth 5)