Volume 2: Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire-North-of-the-Sands
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Current Display: Bromfield 04, Cumberland 
Overview
Object type: Part of hogback
Measurements: L. 152.4 cm (60 in); W. Built in; D. 60.9 cm (24 in)
Stone type: Red sandstone (St Bees sandstone)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 184
Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 81-82
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Present Location
Reused as lintel over south door of church
Evidence for Discovery
First recorded in lecture of 1888 (Calverley 1891a, 126)
Church Dedication
St Kentigern
Present Condition
Severely worn; most of visible surface has been dressed back
Description
Only one upper part of one row of tegulation is now visible (possibly type 2c).
Discussion
The stone appears to have had the tall, thin dimensions of Cumbrian hogbacks.
Date
Tenth century
References
Calverley 1891a, 126; Calverley 1899a, 83, 295; Collingwood 1901a, 271; Collingwood 1907b, 155; Scott 1920, 64; Collingwood 1923c, 243; Collingwood 1927a, 167; Fair 1950, 98; Bailey 1974a, I, 298, II, 71, pls.; Lang 1984, 88, 116
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