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Gardener finds rare Anglo-Saxon carving in a pile of rockery stone

Posted by Phil Voice on December 4, 2014 at 6:01pm in Paving Materials and Advice

Garden John bought a job lot of stone to build a rockery and was cleaning mud and moss off the pieces when he discovered one  stone with a Celtic cross carved on one side and a mythical birdlike beast on the other. After having the stone examined by an expert it was dated back to Anglo-Saxon times. It is believed to have once formed part of a cross-slab from an early Christian monument.

"Guy Schwinge, an auctioneer, said: “The Anglo-Saxon stone is an important find and the stylistic vocabulary on the cross is indicative of an Anglo-Saxon origin and it probably dates from the 9th or 10th century.”

Also going under the hammer at the same sale is a Roman sarcophagus that for years acted as a plant pot in an Oxfordshire garden. The estimate for that is £25,000.

The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11269647/Gardener-unearths-Anglo-Saxon-carving-in-job-lot-of-rockery-stone.html

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Tags: history, anglo, saxon, celtic, stone, gardener, john, wyatt
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