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Object type: Part of hogback
Measurements: L. 25.4 cm (10 in); W. 15.2 cm (6 in); D. 26.5 cm (10.5 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained red sandstone (St Bees sandstone)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 161 - 3
Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 78
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Hogback, type h.
A (long): Tegulation types 2 and 5 on the roof, flanked by a broad undecorated lateral border. Beneath the overhanging eaves the wall carries the worn remains of a tight spiral and a plain end-panel.
B (end): The unornamented hipped gable is bordered by a roll moulding.
Hogbacks decorated with spiralling scrolls on the walls are widely distributed over northern England. The broad undecorated lateral panel on the roof can be paralleled amongst the material from Lythe in Yorkshire (Collingwood 1911a, 294, 295) whilst the simple tegulation type seems to occur on the northern fringes of hogback distribution (Govan, Kirknewton, Lempitlaw; see Lang 1972–4, 225, 227, 228).
