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Object type: Inscribed stone
Measurements: Not recorded
Stone type: Not recorded
Plate numbers in printed volume: N/a
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 303
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Drury (1802, 50) records that 'in 1759 a kind of gravestone was found in St Mary's church dated 657'.
Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).
The provenance is presumably St Mary-le-Wigford, but the possibility of this being a genuine dated seventh-century object is extremely remote. The only sculptural type likely to bear a date of that era is a dedication stone like that at Jarrow (Cramp 1984, 113, pl. 98, 524). The Jarrow dedication of 685 is the earliest known in England and part of the distinctive Romanitas of the Monkwearmouth/Jarrow monastery. It is not clear either within what regnal scheme a date of 657 would be expressed or that it would be intelligible in the mid eighteenth century.
