Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Billingham 08, Durham Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Inside clock-room of church tower, built into east jamb of window on south side
Evidence for Discovery
See no. 1. Not identifiable with any of the stones drawn in Stuart (1867)
Church Dedication
St Cuthbert
Present Condition
Fragmentary(?) and worn
Description

Only one carved face is visible. A fragment of grooved thick stranded interlace.

Discussion

Not enough survives to be diagnostic but it could be similar to 9.

Date
Uncertain
References
Unpublished
Endnotes
1. The following are general references to the Billingham stones: Longstaffe 1858, 82; Hodges 1887-8a, 126; Hodges 1923-4c, 280; Fisher 1962, 50; Taylor 1978, 747.

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