Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Lindisfarne 04, Northumberland Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Priory Museum, Lindisfarne
Evidence for Discovery
Found before 1924, probably in excavations by C. R. Peers
Church Dedication
No Dedication
Present Condition
Only one worn face surviving, rest cut away when reused, so that stone now half cylinder in shape
Description

A (broad): Part of a single roll moulding survives on the left. The face is divided by a horizontal roll moulding. (i) The shadow of what could possibly be an animal as on 1, face A. (ii) Two registers of the design on 2, faces A and C: complete closed circuit pattern F with surrounded elements, outside strands and central twist. The terminals have combined E and F loops.

Discussion

The possible animal design links this stone with 1, as does the fine cutting; the interlace design is, however, the same as that on 2 and at Alnmouth.

Date
Ninth century
References
Peers 1923-4, 268; Adcock 1974, 264, pl. 135A
Endnotes
1. The following are general references to the Lindisfarne stones: (—) 1855-7e, 275; (—) 1869-79c, viii; Rivoira 1933, 153; Elliott 1959; 81; Henry 1965, 158; Coatsworth 1981, 25.

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