Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Aycliffe 08, Durham Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
West end of north aisle, inside
Evidence for Discovery
Removed from walls in restoration of 1881-2
Church Dedication
St Andrew
Present Condition
Damaged by reuse
Description

Only one decorated face survives; the others have been reshaped. Panel of six(?)-strand plain plait enclosed in a single (roll?) moulding.

Discussion

The fragment of interlace is of similar quality to 2, and is differentiated from the figural groups by the stone type.

Date
Late tenth century
References
Hodgson 1880-9, 70, no. 6; Hodges 1905, 219, no. viii; Morris 1976, 140; Morris 1978, 110, pl. 6, 9A
Endnotes

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