Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Lindisfarne 33, Northumberland Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Priory Museum, Lindisfarne
Evidence for Discovery
Found between 1920 and 1924 in excavations by C. R. Peers
Church Dedication
No Dedication
Present Condition
Very worn
Description

Only one face is carved.

A (broad): The slab has a double-incised frame. In the centre is a roughly finished rectangular sinking and on either side two incised outline crosses, type A1.

Discussion

This simple memorial may be either apprentice work or later than those with a central cross. The sinking in the centre might have contained a decorative stone setting.

Date
Second half of eighth century
References
Peers 1923-4, 263, pl. 50, 3
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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