Cross shaft
- Description
- This is the lower part of a stone cross, decorated with simple interlaced patterns. In 1778 it was discovered among the stonework which had been used to build the old Exe Bridge in Exeter.
- Accession Loan No.
- 53/1911
- Collection Class
- Architectural fragments
- Common Name
- cross shaft
- Simple Name
- shaft
- Full Name
- shaft of cross
- Dimensions
- whole width 420 mm; whole height 1940 mm; whole depth 330 mm; mount height 220 mm; mount width 600 mm; mount depth 600 mm
- Period Classification
- Late Saxon (900-1066)
- Production Year Low
- 975
- Production Year High
- 1099
- Family Group
- Material
- stone; granite
- Collection Site Name
- Exe Bridge
- Collection Town
- Exeter
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
