Volume 10: The West Midlands

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Current Display: Abson 2, Gloucestershire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Set in the south wall of the church, externally.
Evidence for Discovery
See Abson 1.
Church Dedication
St James
Present Condition
Weathered and covered with lichen. Only one face visible.
Description

The wedge-shaped arm from a B6? cross-head (Cramp 1991, fig. 2), or possible a small free-standing cross. The face carries a continuous strand of median-incised interlace wrapped into a mirror-image design within a wide, flat-profile edge moulding.

Discussion

The interlace is similar to the fill of many small carved panels in the region, for example the panels that appear on each face of a mid ninth-century cross-shaft from Gloucester (Gloucester St Oswald 4, Ills. 287–90). This stone is probably part of the same monument as no. 1 from the site.

R.M.B.
Date
Mid ninth century
References
Browne 1903, 172; Howorth 1917, ii, 449; Dobson 1933, 266, pl. I, fig. 1; Verey and Brooks 2002, 136–7
Endnotes

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