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Object type: Triangular panel
Measurements: H.22 cm (8.6 in); W. 42 cm (16.5 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Medium-grained, pale grey sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 14.65
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 47 - 48
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Only one face is visible.
A (broad): Part of a wide flat-band moulding survives on part of the edge and encloses a cross in relief, type B6.
This is an unusual piece. In form it could be a triangular panel for decorating the façade of a church, such as survives from Mazerolles (Hubert, Porcher and Volbach 1969, fig. 54), where the same type of cross with exaggeratedly `waisted' arms occurs, and equally it could be the edge of a sarcophagus lid. Either would be a rarity in northern England. The continental parallels are early (seventh to eighth century), and Aycliffe has not otherwise produced early material. Nevertheless, there could have been an ecclesiastical site here by the eighth century.
