Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland
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Current Display: Haughton-le-Skerne 09, Durham 
Overview
Object type: Fragment of hogback(?)[1]
Measurements: H. 26 cm (10.2 in); W. 18 cm (7.1 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Medium-grained yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 86.457
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 104
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Present Location
Western niche in north wall of nave
Evidence for Discovery
Some of stones in nave taken from walls of chancel in enlargement and restoration of church in 1890. Hodges (1905, 232-3), who records their removal, also implies that some found already built into north wall of nave. No description of any stone earlier than 1905, so that only possible to say that all found reused as building stones.
Church Dedication
St Andrew
Present Condition
Fragmentary but fairly unworn
Description
Only one carved face is visible. On what seems to be a ridge is a panel of step pattern 1; below is a plait. All are in punch-outlined technique.
Discussion
Too fragmentary to be worth-while.
Date
Tenth century(?)
References
Hodges 1905, 233; Hodgkin 1913, 157; Morris 1976, 143
Endnotes
1. The following are general references to the Haughton-le-Skerne stones: Longstaff 1858, 82; Hodgson 1862-8a, 146-7; Hodgson 1889-90; Hodges 1894, 78; Pevsner 1953, 164.
