Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Auckland St Andrew 4, Durham Forward button Back button
Overview
National Grid Reference of Place of Discovery
NZ218283
Present Location
Among other stones in north-west corner of nave
Evidence for Discovery
Probably found at same time as Auckland St Andrew 1.
Church Dedication
St Andrew
Present Condition
Broken and worn
Description

A (broad): Edged by a plain grooved moulding within which is an inner border of step pattern 2, enclosing panels of pseudo-key pattern.

B and D (narrow): Incised zig-zags inside an incised border.

C (broad): Uncarved.

Discussion

This piece is small for a recumbent grave-marker but this most plausibly is its function, although it may have been a head- or foot-stone.

Date
Mid tenth to mid eleventh century
References
Browne 1883, 187; Hodgson 1899, 30
Endnotes

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