Tynemouth Priory, incomplete Anglo-Saxon grave-marker

HER Number:
129

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth Priory, incomplete Anglo-Saxon grave-marker

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Religion or Ritual

Site Type: Broad:
Death Burial or Funerary Object

Site Type: Specific:
Gravestone

General Period:
Early medieval

Specific Period:
C10

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
An incomplete grave-marker in medium-grained, yellow sandstone. Its condition is fairly good, but the surface is largely lost and no carvings are visible. It has been dated to the 10th century and was found by G. Jobey in the rubble core of a post-medieval building north of the north transept, during excavations in 1963.

Easting:
373

Northing:
694

Grid Reference:
NZ373694

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 129 >> G. Jobey, 1967, Excavation at Tynemouth Priory and Castle, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLV, pp. 33-104 R.J. Cramp, 1967, in G. Jobey, Excavation at Tynemouth Priory and Castle, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLV, p. 104, pl. 11.2 R.J. Cramp & R. Miket, 1982, Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon...Antiquities in Museum of Antiquities... no. 59 R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Part 1, p. 229, pl. 227, 1278-80 (Tynemouth 7)