Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Jarrow 28, Durham Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Department of Archaeology, University of Durham
Evidence for Discovery
Found in 1975 in archaeological excavations north of church apparently reused as gravestone, no. JA.75.LE
Church Dedication
St Paul
Present Condition
Broken but unweathered
Description
A (long): At the top are the remains of four knob-like projections set back and probably part of the carving for reuse. Below, set in a flat-band moulding, 2.5 cm wide at the sides and 1.4 cm at the top, is a series of balusters in the formula of 2:3:2. The left pair have splayed caps and bases, rounded mouldings top and bottom, and an incised line round the centre. The next three are straight, and the right pair (mutilated) of the bellying type. Below is a projecting plinth marked with an incised line, 2.3 cm wide. There is a white paint or wash on the stone which covers both the top knobs and the baluster face.

B (narrow): Broken.

C (long): Roughly tooled with an adze.

D (narrow): Tooled with a claw chisel.

Discussion

This appears to be part of a baluster frieze like 25-6, recut for an eighteenth-century grave-stone.

Date
Late seventh to early eighth century
References
Unpublished
Endnotes

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