Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture
Durham University, 2019. (updated 2020)
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Hexham 36, Northumberland
| Overview | ||
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Object Type | String-course or impost [1] | Measurements | H. 13 cm (5.4 in); W. 43 cm (16.9 in); D. Built in | Stone Type | Sandstone | Plate Numbers In Printed Volume | 1016 | Corpus Volume Reference | 191 |
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Hexham 36A (Plate no. 1016) Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, University of Durham |
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| National Grid Reference of Place of Discovery | ||
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| NY935641 | ||
| Latitude | ||
| 54.971474 | ||
| Longitude | ||
| -2.103069 | ||
| Diocese | ||
| Newcastle | ||
| Present Location | ||
| Built into west wall of modern nave of abbey, inside | ||
| Evidence for Discovery | ||
| Found during reconstruction of 1899-1908 | ||
| Church Dedication | ||
| St Andrew | ||
| Present Condition | ||
| Incomplete and damaged but unworn | ||
| Date | ||
| Second half of eighth to second half of ninth century | ||
| Earliest Date | ||
| 750 | ||
| Latest Date | ||
| 850 | ||
| Geological Period | ||
| Unspecified | ||
| Description | ||
| Only one face survives. A (long): A flat-band moulding encloses an interlace pattern in which three Carrick Bends (three registers of simple pattern F) are separated by irregular glides. | ||
| Discussion | ||
| See no. 38. | ||
| References | ||
| Savage and Hodges 1907, 41, pl. 40D; Hodges and Gibson 1919, 65; Collingwood 1925, 70, fig. 4H; Collingwood 1927, 28, fig. 34H; Quirk 1961, 31; Taylor and Taylor 1961, 117; Fisher 1962, 70; Taylor and Taylor 1965, 303; Taylor and Taylor 1966, 45; Adcock 1974, 138-9, pl. 40A-B; Cramp 1974, 120, 177, pl. 11C | ||
| Endnotes | ||
| 1. The following are general references to the Hexham stones: (—) 1855-7a, 45-6; Rowe 1877, 62-3; Allen 1889, 230; Bailey 1980, 79, 81, 83. | ||
| Subjects | ||
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| Monument Form: Architectural | ||
| Monument Type: Impost | ||
| Monument Period (MIDAS term): Early Medieval | ||
| Horizon: Pre 920 | ||
