Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland
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Current Display: Hartlepool 06, Durham
Overview
Object type: Complete recumbent grave-marker [1]
Measurements: L. 29.5 cm (11.5 in); W. 25.4 cm (10 in); D. 7.6 cm (3 in)
Stone type: Hartlepool and Roker dolomite
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 85.444
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 100-101
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Present Location
Monks' Dormitory, Durham cathedral, catalogue no. XXVIII
Evidence for Discovery
Found on 15 October 1838 in digging cellar in South Terrace. Not recorded that associated with skeleton, but in week before same workman had found human bones, with plain flat stones beneath skulls.
Church Dedication
St Hilda
Present Condition
Mint
Description
The sides and back are dressed smooth.
A (broad): The rectangular slab is bordered by a deeply incised line. Inside, the ground is quartered by a deeply incised cross, type F1. The lines from the straight-edge from which the arms were ruled, and the central compass point from which the arcs of the terminals were scribed, are still visible. Each quadrant carries an inscription, the lower in Insular majuscules:
(a) Upper quadrants):
A II Ω
(b) Lower quadrants):
BERCHTII GYD
Discussion
The closed form of Omega is exactly like that on 1. The name is a form of the recorded female personal name Beorhtgyd (Okasha 1971, 78). (See also 8.)
Date
Mid seventh to mid eighth century
References
(—) 1838; (—) 1844; Haigh 1846, 189 and fig.; Sharp 1851, 26-33, fig. on 32; Haigh 1858, 21 and fig.; Haigh 1875, 366, no. 4, pl. 2, 2; Hübner 1876, 70, no. 194, and fig.; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; Allen 1887, 118; Pettigrew 1888, 28, fig. on 30; Allen 1889, 217, 221; Boyle 1892, 343, 611; Hodges 1894, 6, fig. on 7; Hodgson 1895, 206 and fig.; Searle 1897, 88; Haverfield and Greenwell 1899, no. XXVIII, 93-4, fig. on 93; Hodges 1905, 212; Hodgkin 1913, 154; Howorth 1917, III, 189-92, 303-4 and pl.; Brown 1918-19, 201-2, fig. 4, 6; Brown 1921, 65-6, pl. 6; Hughes and Faulkner 1925, 105; Collingwood 1927, 12 and fig.; Friesen 1933, 51, 59; Dahl 1938, 9-10; Scott 1956, 201; Page 1964, 84; Cramp 1965a, 6; Cramp 1967a, 25, no. 48; Okasha 1971, 78, pl. 48
Endnotes
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.
