Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft

HER Number:
996

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Cross

General Period:
Early Medieval

Specific Period:
C8

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
The upper fragment of a cross-shaft in medium-grained yellow sandstone. Only one face and the fragment of another survive. The cutting is deep but surface detail worn. It includes an inhabited scroll framed in double flat-band moulding, and a plant scroll within a double-roll moulding. It is 21 cm high x 28.5 cm wide x 8 cm deep. It was found in October 1936 about 300 yards south-east of the church near the north abutment of Old Don Bridge during excavations for sand on the site of the Old Bridge Inn. Perhaps originally from the eastern perimeter of the monastery, either in the lay burial ground or at the entrance from the south overland route. It has been dated to the first half of the 8th century A.D.

Easting:
339

Northing:
652

Grid Reference:
NZ339652

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 996 >> J.D. Rose, 1937, Exhibits, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, VII (for 1935-36), pp. 246-7 B. Colgrave & T. Romans, 1956, A Guide to St. Paul's, Jarrow, and its Monastic Buildings, 29 R.J.Cramp, 1965, Early Northumbrian Sculpture, Jarrow Lecture, 10, pl. 8 R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I Part 1, p. 107, plate 90 (478-81) (Jarrow 2)