South-eastern hogback of 'Giant's Grave' group

See no. 4.

St Andrew

Split laterally, the two sections held together by iron clamps; the north side has been cut away

Hogback, type h. On the south side the steeply pitched roof carries three rows of worn tegulation of type 2b separated from each other by a plain moulding. The wall beneath the eaves is not recessed. On the wall are two horizontal rows of ornament; at the top is a series of free rings and long diagonals placed over a strip of running spiral scroll with pellets. The ground at either end of the wall and below the ornament has not been cut back to form a panel.

The plain moulding between rows of tegulation can be paralleled in Cumbria on Aspatria 6. The combination of scroll and interlace is unique in placing the scroll as the lower element, though there are several examples of the reverse arrangement scattered across hogbacks in the north. The stripped scroll has an exact parallel on the 'Giant's Thumb' (Penrith 2) near by. The lack of a clear panel border at the bottom of the stone is a local characteristic for it recurs on Penrith 7 and on Lowther 4 and 5.

Tenth century

Allen 1885, 354; Calverley 1888d, 469; Calverley 1899a, 249, pl. facing 240; Collingwood 1901a, 265–6, pl. facing 265; Collingwood 1907b, 155; Collingwood 1923a, 122, fig. on 123; Collingwood 1923c, 225; Collingwood 1927a, 166, fig. 198; Routh 1937, 38; Kendrick 1949, 121; Walton 1954, fig. 3b; Pevsner 1967, 17, 173–4; Lang 1967, 371; Schmidt 1970, 17, 28, fig. 4; Bailey 1974a, I, 300, II, 216–7, pl.; Lang 1972–4, 212; Bailey 1980, 100, pl. 28; Lang 1984, 88, 96, 101, 156–9, pl. on 159; Cramp 1984, 88; Bailey forthcoming a