Tynemouth, part of Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft
Tynemouth, part of Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft
HER Number
124
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Tynemouth, part of Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft
Place
Tynemouth
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
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
Part of a cross-shaft in coarse-grained, yellow sandstone. Very worn in places. Decoration includes a figure framed by two animals. It has been dated to the late 10th or early 11th centuries. It was first mentioned in 1885-6 when it was donated to the Society of Antiquaries by Mr. A.J. Stevenson, who provided the information that it had been found c.30 years earlier when an old house in Tynemouth was pulled down.
Easting
437000
Northing
569400
Grid Reference
NZ437000569400
Sources
<< HER 124 >> J.R. Boyle, 1887, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, II, 23-4
C.C. Hodges, 1889, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, III, 236
C.C. Hodges, 1893, The pre-Conquest churches of Northumbria, Reliquary, new series, VII, 68
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1902, 2, X, p. 276 and pl.
S.S. Carr ,1904, The early monumental remains of Tynemouth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XXV, p. 120, fig. 1
H.H.E. Craster, 1907, Northumberland County History, VIII, pp. 134-5, fig. 3
W.G. Collingwood, 1927, Northumbrian Crosses of the pre-Norman Age 135
F. Hastings & T. Romans, 1946, Two Fragments of pre-Norman cross shafts from Ovingham church..., Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXIV, 182, pl. 7 1-2
G.Adcock, 1974, A study of the types of interlace on Northumbrian sculpture, Durham University, Unpublished thesis, 349, pl. 179A
R.N. Bailey, 1978, The chronology of Viking Age sculpture in Northumbria, J.T. Lang ed., Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age Sculpture, British Archaeological Report, British Series, 181
R.N. Bailey, 1980, Viking Age Sculpture in Northern England 253
R.J. Cramp & R. Miket, 1982, Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon and Viking Antiquities... No. 41
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I Part 1, 226-7. pl. 220.1250-53 (Tynemouth 2)
C.C. Hodges, 1889, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, III, 236
C.C. Hodges, 1893, The pre-Conquest churches of Northumbria, Reliquary, new series, VII, 68
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1902, 2, X, p. 276 and pl.
S.S. Carr ,1904, The early monumental remains of Tynemouth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XXV, p. 120, fig. 1
H.H.E. Craster, 1907, Northumberland County History, VIII, pp. 134-5, fig. 3
W.G. Collingwood, 1927, Northumbrian Crosses of the pre-Norman Age 135
F. Hastings & T. Romans, 1946, Two Fragments of pre-Norman cross shafts from Ovingham church..., Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXIV, 182, pl. 7 1-2
G.Adcock, 1974, A study of the types of interlace on Northumbrian sculpture, Durham University, Unpublished thesis, 349, pl. 179A
R.N. Bailey, 1978, The chronology of Viking Age sculpture in Northumbria, J.T. Lang ed., Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age Sculpture, British Archaeological Report, British Series, 181
R.N. Bailey, 1980, Viking Age Sculpture in Northern England 253
R.J. Cramp & R. Miket, 1982, Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon and Viking Antiquities... No. 41
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I Part 1, 226-7. pl. 220.1250-53 (Tynemouth 2)