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Object type: Two fragments of baluster shaft [1]
Measurements: Fragment a: H. 25 cm (9.8 in); Diameter 17 cm (6.7 in); Fragment b: H. 28.5 cm (11.2 in); Diameter 16.5 cm (6.5 in)
Stone type: Hartlepool and Roker dolomite
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 82.419-420
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 96
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Fragment a. The profile is drum-like and the mouldings comprise: a narrow flat-band; three grooves with sharply chamfered edges; a wide flat-band with incised lines at the top and bottom; a single groove and incised band broken off. The top has a lathe hole.
Fragment b. The profile and moulding formula is the same, save that more survives of the band with a single incised groove.
Although these are in the same soft stone as the Monkwearmouth examples, and are also turned on a lathe, the technique which produces sharply pointed grooved mouldings is different. The only parallel to this technique is to be found on the fragment from Greatham near by (no. 4).
