Showing in south, east and west faces 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

Damaged

The visible vertical faces are plain.

A (top): Severely hacked away. It appears, however, that it was originally surrounded by a plain flat-band moulding and contained a cross in relief, type A9.

This type of large grave-cover is also found at Lindisfarne (no. 38). However the plain type of cross that this seems to be is nearer to the Monkwearmouth slab (no. 5). Nevertheless such covers could have continued to be produced for some time and there is nothing very diagnostic about this piece.

Possibly mid ninth to mid tenth century

Unpublished

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