Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland
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Current Display: Sockburn 19, Durham
Overview
Object type: Part of hogback [1]
Measurements: L. 67.5 cm (26.5 in); W. 14.75 cm (5.75 in); D. 56 cm (22 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 141.755, 141.757
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 142
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Present Location
Conyers Chapel
Evidence for Discovery
Church unroofed and abandoned in 1838. Before this, carved stones noticed built into walls (Surtees 1823, 249). After abandonment of church several references to carved stones lying either in church or in Sockburn Hall, but very few described until after Knowles's excavation and bringing together of all known fragments in re-roofed Conyers Chapel in 1900.
Church Dedication
All Saints
Present Condition
Worn and damaged by reuse
Description
The ridge is composed of a complex moulding (basically of flat-band type); the top is squared, hollow and splayed.
A and C (long): The remains of rows of tegulations, a variant of type 9. The remains of three rows survive on face A, only one on C.
Discussion
It is not possible to say much about the type of this hogback. The tegulation type is linked with Lythe (Collingwood 1927, figs. 201, 203); the form, in particular the ridge, is best paralleled by Sockburn 20.
Date
Second half of tenth century
References
Knowles 1896-1905b, 118, no. 14; Hodges 1905, 237, pl. facing 240; Lang 1967, 145-6 et passim; Schmidt 1973, 71; Lang 1984, 166, no. 7
Endnotes
1. The following are general references to the Sockburn stones: Surtees 1823, 249; Longstaffe 1858, 82; (—) 1869-79f, liv; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; (—) 1887c; Eastwood 1887, 347; Allen 1889, 229; (—) 1889-90b, 132; (—) 1899-1900a, 60; (—) 1903, xiii; (—) 1909-10c, 239; Collingwood 1927, 148, 166, 169; (—) 1951-6a, 213; Pevsner 1953, 211; Lang 1972, 235-6; Schmidt 1973, 68-77; Morris 1976, 144; Bailey 1980, 91.
