Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon architectural fragment

HER Number:
1217

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon architectural fragment

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Architecture

Site Type: Broad:
Architectural Fragment

Site Type: Specific:
Architectural Fragment

General Period:
Early Medieval

Specific Period:
C7-C8

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Eight fragments of an ornamental panel, 4.6-7.3 cm high x 3.0-5.4 cm wide x 1.0-1.7 cm deep, in micaceous brown siltstone. Unworn, but damaged and encrusted with iron-pan. There are seven fragments of edge moulding, with traces of pellet/petal/leaf; the eighth is a nearly complete petal. Dated to the late 7th-early 8th century. The panel was probably part of internal decoration. Found in 1965 during the archaeological excavation of a Saxon building.

Easting:
3388

Northing:
6520

Grid Reference:
NZ33886520

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1217 >> R.J. Cramp, 1965, Early Northumbrian Sculpture, Jarrow Lecture, 3 R.J. Cramp, 1969, Excavations at the Saxon monastic sites of Wearmouth and Jarrow... Medieval Archaeology, XIII, 170 R.J.Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Part 1, p. 118, pl. 102 (543), fig. 17 (Jarrow 24)