Volume 3: York and Eastern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Sinnington 09, Eastern Yorkshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Built into blocking of west door, outside
Evidence for Discovery
See no. 1.
Church Dedication
All Saints
Present Condition
Broken and worn
Description

Only one face is visible.

At each side is a flat, fairly broad edge moulding. The panel contains a fragment of interlace, perhaps a Stafford Knot, in a wide, closely woven strand, which is median-incised.

Discussion

'Shallow hacked' work (Collingwood 1907, 386): a rustic response to Anglo-Scandinavian interlace fashion.

Date
First half of tenth century
References
Collingwood 1907, 386, fig. n on 387; Collingwood 1912a, 127
Endnotes
1. The following is a general reference to the Sinnington stones: Allen and Browne 1885, 353.

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