Monkwearmouth, Anglo-Saxon architectural fragment

HER Number:
401

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Monkwearmouth, Anglo-Saxon architectural fragment

Place:
Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Architecture

Site Type: Broad:
Architectural Fragment

Site Type: Specific:
Architectural Fragment

General Period:
Early Medieval

Specific Period:
C7

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
An architectural fragment in fine-grained yellow sandstone, 12 cm high x 18 cm wide x 18 cm deep. Its only surviving carved face contains part of a panel of interlace decoration. It was found in 1966 immediately south of the church and is thought to date to the late 7th century A.D.

Easting:
402

Northing:
578

Grid Reference:
NZ402578

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 401 >> D.M. Wilson & D.G. Hurst, eds. 1967, Medieval Britain in 1966, Medieval Archaeology, XI, 264 G. Adcock, 1974, A study of the types of interlace on Northumbrian sculpture Durham University, Unpublished M Phil thesis, 69-71, pl. 7A R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Pt. 1 131, Pt. 2 pl. 124.681 (Monkwearmouth 17)