Jedburgh Description of stone
Event ID 1085154
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1085154
Jedburgh 14, carved fragment
Measurements: H 150mm, W 175mm, D 145mm.
Stone type: creamy sandstone.
Present location: Jedburgh Abbey (in store; JED/x/1).
Evidence for discovery: found during excavations in 1984, unprovenanced, ‘at W end of the site’.
Present condition: one edge of face A is intact but the others are broken and the carving is very worn.
Description
This fragment is carved in relief on one face (A), which displays three levels of working. The intact edge has been cut back by some 40mm to create a rebated border 50mm wide, with a roll moulding along the outer edge and a panel of continuous outward-facing Stafford knots created by a single cord, the knots linked by glides. A plain flat-band moulding then rises above this panel and separates it from interlace work on the higher level of the stone. The narrow face B and reverse face C of the fragment are dressed but plain, and the dressing is not as fine as that on the carved face.
Date range: ninth or tenth century.
Primary references: Lewis & Ewart 1995, 108, 110.
Research by A Ritchie 2019
