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| RecordAuthor |
Máirín Mac Carron |
| ISODate |
2002-09-20 |
| Date |
20 September 2002 |
| PictureCredit |
Jane Hawkes |
| County |
Northumberland |
| Townland |
Rothbury |
| OSMapRef |
NU 055018 |
| Area |
England |
| GeneralContext |
Cross Shaft fragments. |
| Location |
Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. |
| GeneralContext |
Stone type: Coarse-grained, massive yellow sandstone. |
| GeneralDescription |
Cross Shaft fragments, dated to early ninth century, upper fragment. |
| GeneralDescription |
This panel is framed in a wide flat-band moulding with an inner roll moulding of semi-architectural form. |
| GeneralDescription |
It represents Christ in Majesty. He is frontal and his head is surrounded by a large halo. He does not have a beard or moustache.
He is clothed in a pallium and is holding a book in his left hand.
|
| GeneralDescription |
There are stiff plants on either side of his head. |
