Tynemouth ?, incomplete Anglo-Saxon cross-head

HER Number

128

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth ?, incomplete Anglo-Saxon cross-head

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

An incomplete cross-head in medium-grained, reddish sandstone. It condition is good and it is decorated with various abstract designs. It has been dated to the late 9th or early 10th centuries. It was donated to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle by C.J. Spence of North Shields in 1885-6, having been obtained by him at the disposal of the collection of G. Rippon of North Shields in 1864. No details of the find-spot are known.

Easting

437000

Northing

569400

Grid Reference

NZ437000569400

Sources

<< HER 128 >> J.R. Boyle, 1887, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, II, 23-4
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, 276
S.S. Carr, 1904, The early monumental remains of Tynemouth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XXV, p. 119, fig. 10
H.H.E. Craster, 1907, Northumberland County History, VIII, pp. 133-4, fig. 1
R.J. Cramp & R. Miket, 1982, Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon...Antiquities in Museum of Antiquities, no. 44
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Part 1, pp. 228-9, pl. 226, 1274-7 (Tynemouth 6)