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Description: | Cast lead alloy pendant cross. Crudely cast roughly equal-armed cross with a hole for suspension, pierced from the reverse, at the end of one of the arms. All the arms flare slightly towards their ends (in plan), and there is a longitudinal raised rib, off-centre along each of the arms - could this be a very crude representation of Christ on the cross? If so, then the piercing is through where the head would have been. The arms are plano-convex, flat on the reverse. The reverse is undecorated. There is a V-shaped groove on the reverse of one of the arms (the right as viewed from behind) - this is damage incurred in antiquity rather than deliberate. Grey-cream surface. Length 24.78mm, width 22.16mm, thickness (uneven) 5.7-7.0mm, weight 13.67g.
Probably late early medieval or early medieval, c.1000-1200; possibly of Scandinavian / Anglo-Scandinavian manufacture. In form it can be compared with crucifixes from Birka, Sweden and Trondheim, Norway - see Graham-Campbell & Kidd, 1980 "The Vikings", British Museum, although these have well-formed figures of Christ. See PAS record IOW-A9CF01 for a discussion of such crosses. | Subjects: | Anglo-Scandinavian crucifix | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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