Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

This stone, number 5 in the display cabinet, is known as the Tidfirth Stone, after the name carved in runes on it. The museum information sign drops behind the bottom of the display case, so is not legible in its entirety, but Guy Points, in his "Gazetteer of Anglo Saxon and Viking Sites: County Durham and Northumberland (2012), page 312, records the words: "Are the people on this stone standing by an open grave? Above them the inscription in runes reads Tidfirth, a man's name. The carved back shows that the stone was free-standing. The date is around AD900, by which time the monastery was almost deserted".