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Object type: Incomplete cross-shaft
Measurements: (after Stuart 1867) H. 101.5 cm (40 in); W. 25.5 cm (10 in)
Stone type: Unobtainable
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 93.496
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 108-109
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?A (broad): Based only upon Gibb's drawing in Stuart (1867). He shows one face of the bottom section of a cross-shaft edged and divided into panels by roll mouldings. (i) A ring-knot with closed circuit loops threaded through two circles. (ii) In the lower motif the inner circle is broken into two curving loops.
The upper ring-knot is an uninventive type found also on St Oswald's, Durham 2. The lower knot could be an attempt to reproduce a type of half pattern E with outside strands. Ring-knot patterns are relatively common in the Durham area in the post-Anglian period. This is an important confirmation of the archaeological evidence for the survival of a burial-ground at Jarrow in the post-monastic period.
