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Object type: Cross-shaft fragment
Measurements: H. 12.2 cm (4.8 in); W. 13.5 cm (5.3 in); D. unknown
Stone type: Yellowish grey (5Y 8/1) grain supported shelly oolite with a sparry cement. The ooliths are 0.2 to 1 mm in size. Shell debris (up to 4 mm) is present and is probably of mainly bivalve origin. Cleeve Cloud Member, Birdlip Limestone Formation, Inferior Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 4
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 127-8
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No specific evidence relating to this fragment has been located, but the large collection of stone fragments of varying dates set in the west wall of the north aisle seems to have consisted mainly of material discovered during the restoration of 1902–6 (Edwards 1909, 28); it is possible that some of these fragments were found during an earlier restoration of 1887–9 (Verey and Brooks 1999, 148–9).
Small fragment of a cross-shaft with a wide, flat edge-moulding and median-incised interlace. The background around the interlace is cut back 1 cm (1.2 in).
The interlace is well-executed and carefully laid-out. In this area, this is probably indicative of a ninth-century rather than later date.
Avening is mentioned in a document of 896 in a context which implies that it was a significant estate centre at that date (Sawyer 1968, no. 1441; Hooke 1985, 87). It has been suggested that Avening may have been the site of a minster church (Forbes 2001, 68–101; Forbes forthcoming).
