Volume 3: York and Eastern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Wharram Percy 03, Eastern Yorkshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Reburied in churchyard
Evidence for Discovery
See no. 2. No. 3 covered burial 82, an adult's grave.
Church Dedication
St Martin
Present Condition
Extremely worn, especially across centre; flaking
Description

This very simple slab has a raised ridge running down its axis. There is no other ornament. The sides are vertical.

Discussion

So plain as to be undatable except for its context. Its end-stones are virtually undecorated, but if the end-stone had been upright, its west face would have been flush with the foundation of the south-east chapel of the late eleventh-century church. York Minster's pre-Conquest cemetery has produced similar slabs (nos. 44–5).

Date
Early eleventh century
References
(—) 1975, 46; Bell and Beresford 1987, 147, nos. 1–7, pl. Vla, fiche, p. 5, E8–10, fig. 5, E9
Endnotes
2. Nos. 3-4 had broken end-stones, entirely plain except for a reused rebated stone with no. 3. This custom follows that of the eleventh-century York Minster cemetery and extended beyond the Conquest as a composite grave grouping, for example, at Whitby, North Riding, and Old Surum, Wiltshire.

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