The Corpus: Lindisfarne 40

Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Lindisfarne 40, Northumberland

Overview

Object type: Fragment [1]

Measurements: H. 9.5 cm (3.75 in); W. 8.9 cm (3.5 in); D. 6.3 cm (2.5 in)

Stone type: Fine-grained yellowish sandstone

Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 202.1142-1145

Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 207

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Present Location

Priory Museum, Lindisfarne

Evidence for Discovery

None

Church Dedication

No Dedication

Present Condition

Unworn

Description

A: Smoothly dressed, and framed by a plain vertical roll moulding and incised panel division.

B: Part of a panel of deeply cut modelled interlace; a roll moulding survives on one edge.

C and D: Broken away.

Discussion

This fragment is too small to be diagnostic. The interlace, however, is fine and deeply modelled rather like that on 18.

Date

Eighth or ninth century(?)

References

Unpublished

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.