Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Coniscliffe 04, Durham Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Built into south wall of nave, outside
Evidence for Discovery
First mentioned by Morris (1976)
Church Dedication
St Edwin
Present Condition
Very worn
Description

Only one carved face is visible. Part of the edge of a cross-shaft or -head, with a straight line pattern of step 1.

Discussion

This pattern seems to put the fragment into the Anglo-Scandinavian period (see Gainford 6).

Date
Mid tenth to mid eleventh century(?)
References
Morris 1976, 143
Endnotes

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