What is recorded here

Break the slab and the cross loses half its height, but the animal at the base still occupies the place where ascent begins. In the porch of St Audeon's medieval parish church, the remaining limestone piece lies broken into three, its chamfered edges catching light from the door. The missing top may have pointed to heaven, been lost, or never have existed; the bottom still gives the cross a world to rise from.

In the porch of St Audeon's medieval parish church (DU018-020075-) is the lower half of a limestone coffin-shaped slab showing the stem of a cross and a small animal motif at the base. The sides are deeply chamfered. It is broken in three pieces (L 0.67m, Wth 0.48m-0.35m, T 0.14m). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 16 August 2012

likely dates to the early medieval period, possibly Christian, and may have functioned as a funerary or commemorative monument. The cross and animal motif suggest a blend of Christian and possibly older symbolic traditions.

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