Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland
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Current Display: Gainford 36, Durham 
Overview
Object type: Hogback of house type [1]
Measurements: Not known
Stone type: Not known
Plate numbers in printed volume: None
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 156
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Present Location
Not known
Evidence for Discovery
Not known
Church Dedication
St Mary
Present Condition
Not known
Description
Not known
Discussion
Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).
Date
Not known
References
Browne 1887, 147; Morris 1976, 142
Endnotes
1. The following are general references to the Gainford stones: Greenwell 1880-9b, lxviii; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; (—) 1887-8b, 373. Brock 1888, 176, refers to stones in a graaden (later taken to Durham) and mentions illustrations by STuarts but does not describe them individually. (—) 1905-6b, 343-4, refers to discovery of stones in 1864-5 restoration, and there is also a reference to the finding in 1905 of another stone in the field west of the churchyard wall, and to the discovery of bones and a sword in the churchyard in 1889.
