
Parish/District | Bardney/West Lindsey |
Location | Two cross fragments (one now in Bardney church) were found during the excavations of nearby Bardney Abbey site 1909-1914 |
Category | Uncategorised) |
National Grid Ref | Abbey site: TF 11347 70577 |
Designation | None |
Stone type | Limestone (both) |
Refs | See Everson & Stocker for Bardney |
Visits | – |
There are two cross fragments relating to Bardney which are thought to derive from the excavation of the abbey site conducted by the Revd Laing 1909-1914. They are fully reported in the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture (Vol 5) and are mentioned briefly here for completeness.
1. A broken arm of an 11th century cross head (now in Lincoln Museum)
2. Remains of a 7th century ‘stubby armed cross’ later recut as a cross-base or post socket stone (on display in Bardney church)
Bardney was awarded a market charter in 1232, and so may well also have had a market cross – the green to the east of the church may once have been a market place.
In addition, there is a documentary report of a cross on King’s Hill – the mound near the abbey site, in folklore said to be the grave of Aethelred of Mercia, which is now thought to be a monastic rabbit warren. No cross exists there now.

by John Marius Wilson 1870 p106