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Object type: Fragment of shaft
Measurements: H. 30.5 cm (12 in); W. 26.3 cm (10.4 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Fine-grained, dolomitic, white to very pale brown (10YR 8/2–8/3) limestone; Lower Magnesian Limestone, Upper Permian; reused Roman ashlar, originally from Tadcaster area (see Fig. 5).
Plate numbers in printed volume: 203
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 80
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At the base of the only exposed face is a broad, flat moulding. Above it is the head of a beast with nose-fold, double outline and incised elliptical eye with pupil. It bites a leg, also with double outline, which has four toes to the paw. Above is another paw reaching from the left. The head emerges from a double edged fragment of torso. The figures are cut in very high relief.
The style of the animal is that of the York Metropolitan School and the level of relief reminds one of the York Master's work, though here the carving is less assured: compare Newgate 1 (Ills. 342–6). Collingwood (1909, 213) considered that it had formed part of a tympanum.
