Volume 3: York and Eastern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Stonegrave 08, Eastern Yorkshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
On shelf at west end of nave, inside
Evidence for Discovery
First recorded in 1981; see no. 1.
Church Dedication
Holy Trinity
Present Condition
Much broken and worn
Description

Only the top surface is decorated. There is a cabled edge moulding enclosing a perimeter band of interlace: three-strand plain plait on the left, expanding apparently to five strands along the top, the corner being turned rather awkwardly. Within is the corner of a curving plain moulding.

Discussion

This is possibly another fragment of no. 6.

Date
Tenth century
References
Firby and Lang 1981, 20
Endnotes
1. The following are general references to the Stonegrave stones: Allen and Browne 1885, 353; Frank 1888, 40; McDOnnell 1963, 56; Lang 1989, 1.

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