Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Billingham 15, Durham Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Window-sill in south aisle
Evidence for Discovery
None
Church Dedication
St Cuthbert
Present Condition
Broken but generally unworn
Description

A (broad): The background slab has been cut down, possibly to make a building block. The face is very smoothly dressed and is quartered by a relief cross, type B6.

B–F: Roughly dressed back.

Discussion

This stone, like 14, is thicker than the early grave-markers and name-stones. It could possibly be a cross built into a church wall, but it seems more reasonable to see it as a late grave-marker.

Date
Late tenth to early eleventh century
References
Gilbert 1946-50, 204, fig. 4B
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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