At top of pillar. See no. 1.

Raine (1852) records that about eighteen fragments of sculpture found by Mr. Gilly in 1833 in investigating foundations of building in churchyard a few paces from east end of present church. Fragments built up into pillar by time of note in (-) 1869-79c, and possibly before Stuart (1867), whose plates show only faces now visible [1]. Pillar originally in churchyard: Allen and Browne 1885, 351; (-) 1889-90d, 243; Tomlinson 1891, 551. Removed indoors c. 1891: (-) 1891-2b, 49-54; Hodges 1893, 85. Very few fragments described before Stuart.

St Cuthbert

Broken but unworn

Fragment of base section of a cross-shaft, with double roll mouldings and chamfered plain base.

A (broad): Part of a panel of diagonal fret (Allen 1903, no. 958).

B (narrow): Part of a panel of diagonal fret (Allen 1903, 941).

C (broad): Built in.

D (narrow): Part of an interlace panel: two registers of alternating half pattern C with a bar terminal. The strands are rounded and deeply cut.

This is the only piece from Norham which has some affinity with the work of the mother house at Lindisfarne. However, the cutting of both the plaits and key patterns is much more skilful and confident than anything at Lindisfarne. In fact the patterns of Lindisfarne 5 and 6 look as if they are copies of the patterns on this cross.

Mid ninth century

Stuart 1867, 20-1, pl. xxvii, 2; Adcock 1974, 192, pl. 77B; Cramp 1978a, 13, pl. 1, 9

1. Those faces which are cemented into the pillar cannot be described but some descriptions can be based on earlier illustrations