British Museum, no. 1880.3-13.4

Probably found at same time as no. 0, although not mentioned or figured until 1846

St Hilda

Worn and slightly damaged

The slab is rectangular and smoothly dressed on the sides and back.

A (broad): The carved face is surrounded by a wide flat relief border, the line of which is interrupted to accommodate the terminals of the arms of a cross, type F1. The cross is carved in shallow relief and the circular centres of the terminals are large in relation to the arms. The right horizontal arm is damaged by a circular hole. Inscription, in Anglo-Saxon capitals, in lower quadrants:

 ED[—] II (—]

The inscription is too damaged to be certain of the original reading, which has been reconstructed as EDILUINI (Okasha 1971, 77), a form of the masculine personal name Edilwine. It is very worn, and may have been recut.

Mid seventh to mid eighth century

Haigh 1846, 188 and fig.; Sharp 1851, 26-33; Haigh 1858, 20 and fig.; Longstaffe 1862-8, xv-xvi; Haigh 1875, 66, no. 7, pl. 2, 5; Hübner 1876, 69, no. 191, and fig.; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; Pettigrew 1888, 27, fig. on 29; Allen 1889, 215-16; Boyle 1892, 611; Hodges 1894, 6; Hodgson 1895, 205; Searle 1897, 58; Hodges 1905, 212 and pl.; Hodgkin 1913, 154; Howorth 1917, I, 92-3 and pl.; Brown 1918-19, 201, fig. 4, 3; Brown 1921, 65 et passim, pl. 6; Smith 1923, 121-2, fig. 155; Friesen 1933, 51, 59, fig. 44; Scott 1956, 201; Okasha 1971, 77, pl. 45; Roesdahl et al. 1981, 47, no. C5

1. The following are general references to the Hartlepool stones: Charlton 1855-7, 70-1; Haigh 1873, 269; Smith and Cheetham 1880, 1979; Stephens 1884a, 189; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; Browne 1886b; 12; Howorth 1914, 47; Peers 1914-15; Clapham 1930, 75; Rivoira 1933, 153; Pfeilstűcker 1936, 127; Kendrick 1938, 110; Henry 1965, 158; Page 1973, 25.
2. I am grateful to Dr. I Freestone for identifying the stone type of this and nos. 5, 7 and 8.