St Peter's Church (Monkwearmouth)

This is fragment AS Corpus Monkwearmouth 15b, which is dated to the last quarter of the 7th century. Also being a left arm, it could only have belonged to a second chair. The Corpus describes this fragment as "A single block of stone has a lion carved in very high relief. The beast's two back haunches are carved almost free from the stone. It is standing with front legs slightly braced on a ledge and head bent and turned to its right, pressed against the upper block. It has a thick tail, the surface of which has been lost, but the punched outlines for it survive. The body is muscular and tapers towards the back haunches. The head has pointed ears and oval eyes. The claws of its front paws are realistically carved".