ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS 



patee, the lower arm of which disappears in the shaft. It is represented as 

 having beaded edges, but no other ornamentation. Two of the other stones 

 in the same group are fragments of cross-shafts, having crudely executed 

 knot-work upon them. Another very small fragment, only 8 inches long 

 and 4 inches wide, appears to be a portion of the ridge of a hog-backed stone, 

 as it has upon it the fret ornament which occurs on more than one of this 

 class in the Durham collection. 



In the eastern group are three stones. One of these is a portion of a 

 cross-shaft, measuring 4 feet in length and 14 inches in width, and about 

 5 inches in thickness. The surface is very much defaced, but it appears to 

 have had panels containing monsters in connexion with interlacing bands. 

 The side visible has a simple interlaced design upon it. The other stones 

 are all of small dimensions. One has a rudely worked key pattern, and 

 another a portion of a panel with simple plait-work. The last is the most 

 important of all. It is a fragment measuring 15 inches by 6 inches, and has 

 upon it a beautifully executed sculpture, in a good state of preservation, of 

 twisted monsters. It is remarkable that such a delicate piece of work should 

 be found here, where all the other specimens are of crude and debased 

 character. 



Hurworth. — The church has been entirely rebuilt. A single stone, 

 contemporary with the earliest church here, is in the Durham collection, and 



is here figured. It is a small 

 portion of one of the upper 

 angles of the base stone of a 

 cross, and is i foot 3 inches 

 long, 10 inches high, and 

 6J inches wide.^ It has sloping 

 sides and the usual triple bead 

 on the angles. The larger face 

 has a well executed key pattern. 

 The other has a small portion of 

 a panel filled with knot-work. 

 In both cases the bands are 

 divided. 



Jarrow. — The classic site of 

 the monastery of St. Paul still retains some fragments of the sculpture of 

 this period. In the porch attached to the modern nave are several stones 

 which must be dealt with in this section, although by far the larger number 

 of them are detached architectural details. 



On the west side of the porch are two small stones which are possibly 

 both fragments from the same cross. They contain sculpture of the highest 

 artistic merit, and belong to the time when the Anglian school was at its 

 zenith. One has a single whorl of a rolling scroll with trefoil and other 

 foliage terminations to its stems, and involving a human figure of juvenile 

 appearance, holding in the left hand a small circular sliield, and in the right 

 some weapon with which he attacks a creature in the scroll facing him. 

 The other has double scrolls starting from a central vertical stem. The two 

 whorls, which are nearly complete, have birds perched upon stems with 



' Haverfield and GreenwcU, of. cit. 96, No. xxx. 

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Portion op Base Stone of Cross from Hurworth 



