This is a fragment of decorated cross shaft. Crosses were used as focal points for outdoor worship, often adorned with carved scenes used for teaching and preaching to gathering crowds.

The broadest, most complete face of this stone is decorated with a ribbon animal. The animal’s head is seen in profile with a lentoid eye, squared–off muzzle and a single ear extending into the interlace. Its double-outlined body ends in a single leg and three-toed foot.

The narrow face shows a crouching animal in profile, enmeshed in its tail with possible ears. The head appears to be rounded and the front leg ends with a three-toed foot.

These carved decorations may have been based on manuscripts, taking inspiration from similar motifs appearing in the Lindisfarne Gospels.

English Heritage accession number: 81077047

This cross shaft fragment is carved on all faces. A wide, flat band separates the remains of the damaged neck, where the cross head was formed, from the shaft

On the narrow side beneath the remnants of the curved neck are two interlaced ribbon animals. Both have straight front legs and bodies which end in curled tails. Their heads are rounded, with their jaws open and curled back. Their ears and tails are entwined, coming to an end with two frond-like terminations. The depiction of animals on this sculpture is unique in Northumbrian sculpture and is closely related to traditional Pictish animal ornament.

The broad, more deeply carved face of this stone appears to depict the lower limbs of two crouching animals, enmeshed in interlace and separated by what might be a tree trunk. The reverse face shows a plait, possibly made of twelve cords.

This sculpture was found sometime before 1862 in the nave of the later church of Lindisfarne priory.

English Heritage accession number: 81077053

This is part of a sandstone cross shaft. The upper panel is carved with a central seated figure, arms bent and hands on hips, topped with a halo. While this figure is similar to depictions of squatting individuals seen in Irish tradition metalwork, this particular figure may represent a seated Christ in a Judgement scene.

Above him are two figures each holding a book, or mallet, who appear to be blowing a trumpet. They are bearded, bare-legged and wearing short tunics.

Below the possible Christ figure are two seated figures each with a horn or scroll. The scrolls may have been painted with a name or biblical quote.

Intricate interlace patterns also adorn this cross shaft.

English Heritage accession number: 81077064

This incomplete cross shaft may have been reused as column in the 12th century priory church at Lindisfarne.

Found some time before 1924, only one worn face survives. The rest of the sculpture has been lost from reworking the stone into a column. The remaining decoration could be that of an animal or interlace design.

English Heritage accession number: 81077054

This cross shaft demonstrates many different designs. It is adorned with geometric decorations, the legs of a standing four-legged animal, fretwork, a botched ring-knot design, and finally a plain panel. Its worn and damaged appearance suggests it could have been repurposed later in its life.

English Heritage accession number: 81077063

Crosses such as these could have been used a boundary marker to delimit or indicate an area of particular importance such as a monastic precinct or vallum. On this fragment there are the legs of a ram above a carved geometric knot known as key or fret pattern. This pattern is identical to that on a cross found at St. Andrew’s in Scotland.

English Heritage accession number: 81077060

This fragment of sculpture was part of a cross-shaft which has been re-used and damaged over its lifetime.

The main face of this fragment is decorated with a flat, curved band and random lumpy interlace. Emerging from both sides of the interlace are two bird’s heads with round eyes and open beaks. The lower part of a human body appears in the centre, stood on the curved band.

At the base of this face is a four-legged animal which may be laying down. It has a lumpy forehead, pointed ear, a canine jaw and its tongue and two legs disappear into the jumble of interlace.

The opposite face is divided by a thick curved roll which may terminate in a bird’s head. An irregular interlace pattern sits below.

This fragment may have originally formed part of the same monument as this cross arm.

English Heritage accession number: 81077056

This fragment of cross shaft depicts two bearded figures facing each other separated by a column, suggesting they are stood in a building. Similar figures are evident on other earlier crosses, and this shaft may have taken inspiration from such crosses.

A similar example can be seen in the  Norham 04 sculpture.

English Heritage accession number: 81077062

This is a broken, worn, and incomplete cross shaft with only a single narrow face surviving. This remaining face is edged by two flat bands and decorated with traces of interlace. This fragment may have been part of the shaft for this cross arm fragment.

English Heritage accession number: 81077058

A small fragment of cross shaft measuring 20cm by 21cm by 9.5cm. Its face is very finely dressed, with a delicately chiselled inner roll moulding.

English Heritage accession number: 81077049

This is an unworn fragment of a cross arm. This fragment may have been part of the head for this cross-shaft fragment. However, not enough of either the cross shaft or cross arm survives to make a definitive link between the two.

English Heritage accession number: 81077042

A worn fragment of cross with only one decorated face of indecipherable interlace.

English Heritage accession number: 81077044

This fragment of sculpture is a broken and worn section of a cross arm. It is decorated with a confused and clumsy linked pattern, which does not appear to be based on any geometric principle.

English Heritage accession number: 81077051

A fragmentary arm from a stone cross decorated with an incised interlace pattern.

English Heritage accession number: 81077048

This slightly weathered cross head fragment is decorated with a variety of interlace patterns. This head could belong to this cross shaft fragment.

English Heritage accession number: 81077045

This is a unique cross base unlike any other found on Lindisfarne to date. The front face is decorated with two cords running around the outer edge which interlock at the top and bottom.

The top cords twist together, hang vertically and end in cruciform. The lower cords lie intertwined at the bottom of the stone and finish a wedge or Tau cross shape.

The design is reminiscent of the entwined serpents on the late 7th century portal stones of the church at Monkwearmouth. It has also been suggested that the simple ornament gives the impression that the base is covered with a cloth with decorative bindings and ties.

It was broken in half and laid before the high altar as the foundation stone of the early 12^th century church.

English Heritage accession number: 88404000

This sandstone slab, originally much taller, would have marked a burial. Decorated with a raised cross in the centre, each arm of the cross is decorated with interlace. This type of burial cover has a long Anglo-Saxon history and can be compared with examples from Norham and Monkwearmouth, as well as wider afield in Scotland and Ireland.

This sculpture was found reused within the walling of the 13th century Chapter House of Lindisfarne Priory.

This stone may have been used as a vertical or flat grave marker.

English Heritage accession number: 81077052

This cross shaft fragment is very worn, with two faces broken away. There are indications of flat-band moulding, multiple panels and interlace, but too little of the decoration remains to be sure.

English Heritage accession number: 81077046

This fragment of early medieval stone carving is relatively unworn. It is smoothly dressed with vertically incised panels on one face, and part of a deeply cut modelled interlace on another. While interesting, this fragment is too small to base any significant conclusions.

English Heritage accession number: 81077039

This fragment of a burial marker measures only 9cm tall, by 10.5cm wide and is 5.5 cm thick. It is decorated with small rolls.

English Heritage accession number: 81077043

A fragment of cross shaft incised with interlace decoration.

English Heritage accession number: 81077040

This is a broken but unworn fragment of a cross shaft or impost. Imposts are blocks which rest on top of a column or are embedded in a wall as part of an arch. This fragment measures 21cm tall by 14.5cm wide and is 13cm thick.

It is difficult to determine its function because only a small piece of this sculpture remains.

It is decorated using heavy cables and thick pellets, which tend to be associated with later periods (Norman conquest and onwards). If it was used as an impost, the robust decoration may be linked to its use within an architectural feature.

This is an unusual piece of pre-Norman conquest sculpture found on Lindisfarne in terms of both form and decoration.

English Heritage accession number: 81077050

This fragment of a cross shaft is made from sandstone and plainly decorated with a double incised border and rolled edge. Plain shafts such as these may be associated with later period ring-headed crosses. Ring-heads can be dated to as late as c. 1100, however this plain shaft could be pre-Conquest.

It may have been more elaborately decorated with a painted design, but no trace of paint remains now.

English Heritage accession number: 81077066

This large ring-headed cross made of yellow sandstone is one of two known from Lindisfarne. The other was reset on a 19^th century cross shaft on the village green on Holy Island until it was blown down in high winds in 1993.

English Heritage accession number: 880636

This end section of a burial marker may have served as a covering stone for a shrine burial. Shrine burials were typically made of stone and took prominence by sitting on the surface, rather than being buried below ground. They were usually reserved for important or significant members of the monastic community and may have also become a focal point around which other individuals were buried.

English Heritage accession number: 81077059

A small fragment of early medieval cross arm with mortar on all faces from later reuse as building stone. This piece is plainly decorated with chamfered roll moulding on its edges. A chamfer is a type of bevel which connects two adjoining right-angled faces at a 45-degree angle.

English Heritage accession number: 81077005

This is a finial or central boss of freestanding cross decorated with small rolls and pellet moulding. The fragment measures 11cm tall and 15cm in across, with each pellet approximately 1cm in diameter.

English Heritage accession number: 81077033

This fragment of a cross shaft was found on the Heugh, an elevated rocky ridge on Holy Island where foundations for a 7^th century church have also been found. The fragment was reused to separate two skulls in an 11^th century burial. The interlace pattern is very similar to Lindisfarne 02.

Owned by The Crossman Trust.