In show-case in north aisle

Found in September 1866 during excavations, face downwards below ground, above medieval coffin in west porch

St Peter

Broken top, side and base; unworn

A (broad): One side is edged by a roll moulding inset from a flat edge. At the top are the remains of two wing-like features. Set centrally on the slab is a standing cross, type A3, in high relief. It is outlined by a raised flat-band moulding, and has a block base. The horizontal arms push into the edge moulding, which steps out around them. In the quadrants of the cross is a Latin inscription in Anglo-Saxon capitals. It reads:

(a) Upper two quadrants:

 HIC II INSE

 PUL II CRO

 REQV II IESCIT

(b) Lower two quadrants:

 COR II PORE

 HERE II BERI

 CHT II PRB'

HIC IN SEPULCRO REQUIESCIT CORPORE HEREBERICHT PR(ES)B(YTER) (Translation: `Here in the tomb rests Herebericht the priest in the body').

The two lowest lines of lettering are smaller and more carelessly laid out than the rest of the inscription. They also include a different form of `E'. On careful inspection of the stone it is clear that the surface below the last two lines has been rubbed down, so that one should accept Browne's suggestion that the stone has been re-used (Browne 1886a, 30).

B (narrow) and C (broad): Plain.

D (narrow) and E (top): Broken off.

This type of cross with square-ended arms is much favoured on slabs at Monkwearmouth and Jarrow (nos. 10-12). It is also found on the name-stone from Monkwearmouth (no. 4). However, this piece is by far the most assured and confident relief slab carving that has survived. It seems to represent a significant stage in the development of the relief slab and the free-armed crosses.

First quarter of eighth century

(—) 1862-8c, fig. 6; Johnson 1866, 364; Greenwell and Westwood 1869; Haigh 1869-70, 216; Hübner 1876, 71, no. 197, and fig.; Bloxham 1877; Browne 1884-8, 11-14, pl. 2, 3; Allen and Browne 1885, 351; Boyle 1886, 51, pl. 6; Browne 1886a, 302; Browne 1886b, 11-12, pl. 2, 1; Allen 1889, 208, 213, 222; Boyle 1892, 544; Hodges 1893, 147, fig. on 148; Patterson 1901, 79-80, fig. 5; Collingwood 1903-4, 224; Hodges 1905, 234; Hodgkin 1913, 200; Howorth 1917, II, 286, pl. facing 284; Brown 1921, 85, pl. 8, 4; Collingwood 1927, 15, fig. 19; Levison 1943, 121, pl. 3A, 1; Colgrave 1944-53, 192; Hodgkin 1952, 296 and fig.; Pevsner 1953, 187, 280; Radford 1954b, 211; Hyslop 1960, 32 and fig.; Colgrave and Cramp 1965, 23 and fig.; Cramp 1965b, 4; Taylor and Taylor 1965, 444; Okasha 1971, 101. pl. 92; Higgitt 1979, 360-1, 363-5, pls. 62B, 63