Tyne and Wear HER(1216): Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon architectural fragment - Details
1216
S Tyneside
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon architectural fragment
Jarrow
NZ36NW
Architecture
Architectural Fragment
Architectural Fragment
Early Medieval
C7-C8
Find
Fragment of a decorative strip, 8 cm high x 8 cm wide x 7.5 cm deep, in fine-grained yellow sandstone. Unworn, but only one face is carved, and an area 2.8 cm is dressed smooth on either side of the face. The rest of the sides and back are finely dressed and covered with mortar. In the centre is a fine relief cable ornament edged at the top with a flat-band and at the base by a roll moulding.. Dated to the 7th-8th century; found during archaeological excavations in 1965 inside a Saxon building.
3388
6520
NZ33886520
<< HER 1216 >> R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Part 1, pp. 117-18, pl. 101 (536) (Jarrow 23)