The Corpus: Lindisfarne 09

Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Lindisfarne 09, Northumberland

Overview

Object type: Incomplete cross-shaft [1]

Measurements: H. (max.) 55 cm (21.5 in); W. 43 cm (17 in); D. 22.9 > 19.1 cm (9 > 7.5 in)

Stone type: Medium-grained, massive pink sandstone

Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 194.1078-1081

Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 198

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Present Location

Priory Museum, Lindisfarne

Evidence for Discovery

Found before 1924, probably in excavations by C. R. Peers

Church Dedication

No Dedication

Present Condition

Broken and worn

Description

Only one narrow face surviving.

B (narrow): Edged by flat-band mouldings – the outer wider than the inner. (i) A long bar terminal and traces of interlace. (ii) Begins with simple pattern E terminals, and develops into complete pattern C, ending with a long bar terminal. (iii) May have been a repeat of the same pattern.

Discussion

Too little survives of this shaft for definite assessment to be made, but it could be linked in layout with 3.

Date

Late ninth to late tenth century

References

Peers 1923-4, 269; Adcock 1974, 275-6, pl. 131B

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.