Select a site alphabetically from the choices shown in the box below. Alternatively, browse sculptural examples using the Forward/Back buttons.
Chapters for this volume, along with copies of original in-text images, are available here.
Object type: Two window heads
Measurements: Unobtainable. See Taylor and Taylor 1965.
Stone type: Coarse-grained, massive yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 125.697; 126-7
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 135
(There may be more views or larger images available for this item. Click on the thumbnail image to view.)
a (eastern): The window opening is formed from two monolithic round-headed stones; the wider, facing the interior, is ornamented on its vertical face by two irregular concentric incised lines. On the soffit of the stone are three concentric incised lines linked by angular incisions which give the impression of `wheat-ear' or chevron ornament. The shallow head, which faces the exterior, also has shallow concentric grooves on the outer face and a single line of `wheat-ear' ornament incised on the soffit.
b (western): The window opening is formed as for a, and the outer and inner vertical faces of the round heads are ornamented with concentric incised lines, but the soffit faces are plain.
This ornament has been compared by Taylor and Taylor (1965, 535) with that at Heysham and Somerford Keynes. It is, however, as they say, much more tentative than these, and that on a has an unfinished appearance.
