Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft
HER Number
995
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft
Place
Jarrow
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Religious House
Site Type: Specific
Cross
General Period
EARLY MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Early Medieval 410 to 1066
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Incomplete cross-shaft, in medium-grained massive yellow sandstone. Two faces survive, broken but unworn, with decorative plant scroll enclosed by a flat-band moulding. It is 26 cm high x 24.2 cm wide x 16.5 cm max. depth. It was found before 1899 outside the churchyard south-west of the church and has been dated to the second half of the 8th century A.D.
Easting
433800
Northing
565200
Grid Reference
NZ433800565200
Sources
<< HER 995 >> F. Haverfield & W. Greenwell, 1899, A Catalogue of the Sculptured and Inscribed Stones...Cathedral Library Durham, No. XIII, 70 and fig.
Illustration H.E. Savage, 1900, Jarrow church and monastery, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XXII, fig. on p. 46
C.C. Hodges in W. Page, ed. 1905, Anglo-Saxon remains, Victoria County History, Durham, I, p. 234
W.G. Collingwood, 1927, Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age, 109
R.J. Cramp,1965, Durham Cathedral: A Short Guide to the Pre-Conquest Sculptured Stones, 4, no. 13
R.J. Cramp, 1967, The Monastic Arts of Northumbria, 25-Jun
R.J.Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I Part 1, pp. 106-07, plate 90 (474-7) (Jarrow 1)
Illustration H.E. Savage, 1900, Jarrow church and monastery, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XXII, fig. on p. 46
C.C. Hodges in W. Page, ed. 1905, Anglo-Saxon remains, Victoria County History, Durham, I, p. 234
W.G. Collingwood, 1927, Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age, 109
R.J. Cramp,1965, Durham Cathedral: A Short Guide to the Pre-Conquest Sculptured Stones, 4, no. 13
R.J. Cramp, 1967, The Monastic Arts of Northumbria, 25-Jun
R.J.Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I Part 1, pp. 106-07, plate 90 (474-7) (Jarrow 1)