The Corpus: Wharram Percy 02

Volume 3: York and Eastern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Wharram Percy 02, Eastern Yorkshire

Overview

Object type: Grave-cover [1]

Measurements: L. 162.5 cm (64 in); W. 48.4 > 42 cm (19.1 > 16.5 in); D. 15 cm (5.9 in)

Stone type: Coarse, shelly, oolitic, very pale brown (10YR 8/4) limestone; Coral Rag, Coralline Oolite Formation, Middle Oxfordian, Upper Jurassic; nearest source is North Grimston (see Fig. 5).

Plate numbers in printed volume: 883

Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 222

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Present Location

Reburied in churchyard

Evidence for Discovery

Nos. 2–4 found close together during excavation at east end of vestry south of chancel of St Martin's church. No. 2 covered burial 83, an adult's grave.

Church Dedication

St Martin

Present Condition

Worn and flaking

Description

Only the upper surface is decorated. A low ridge, slightly modelled, runs from the lower, tapered end along the centre to meet the foot of a broad, long-stemmed cross of type B6 in low relief. The cross fills about half the length of the slab. The sides of the slab are dressed and vertical.

Discussion

There is little that is diagnostically datable here, except that the particular form of cross is found on very late pre-Conquest slabs in York, such as Parliament Street 2–3 (Ills. 351, 357). The type continues beyond the Conquest.

Date

Early eleventh century

References

(—) 1975, 46; Bell and Beresford 1987, 147, nos. 1–7, pl. V1a, fiche, p. 5, E8–10, fig. 5, E9

Endnotes

1. The following is a general reference to nos. 2-4: Lang 1989, 5.