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Grave slab, PVER IVRDANVS letters, chamfered edges
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On the upper face of a semi-octagonal or ridged stone, that may have covered the grave of a Norman child, is inscribed ‘PVER IVRDAN’. Each sloping side bears a cross of pattée form, accompanied on one face with an incised pattern of vertical and diagonal lines like the letters I and X united; on the other by an object which has been supposed to represent a sword. [Raine]
Broad chamfered edges with various incised motifs; on the upper a diaper pattern, a tree(?) and two small crosses, on the lower a dagger, a cross, and another motif difficult to interpret.[Ryder]
PVER IVRDANVS
Latin
late 11th–early 12th cent
Post Anglo-Saxon
Found 1790 – 1808 in the cloister. In N Transept in 1888.
1865: “… in the north transept … On the upper face of a semi-octagonal or ridged stone, that may have covered the grave of a Norman child, is inscribed ‘PVEr IVRDAN’. Each sloping side bears a cross of pattée form, accompanied on one face with an incised pattern of vertical and diagonal lines like the letters I and X united; on the other by an object which has been supposed to represent a sword.” [Raine, Preface II p.lxxxviii]
1823: ‘… and a curious columnar gravestone was digged up in the cloisters, inscribed—“P. uer Jurdani”—and ornamented with crosses.’ [Wright, p.187 fn.5]
H 740 | W 260 | D 220
recess 3.
Nave/North Aisle/North Wall/Bay 5
Drawings: Raine p.lxxxviii. Hodges, 1888, H Plate35. Ryder, p.123, no.29.



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