Volume 3: York and Eastern Yorkshire

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Current Display: York Minster 38, York Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Minster Undercroft
Evidence for Discovery
See no. 32, and Ill. 417.
Church Dedication
St Peter
Present Condition
One end broken away (see no. 36?) and one edge chipped; otherwise crisp
Description

The sides are smoothly dressed, and only the top is carved.

A (top): A cabled edge moulding runs round the perimeter of the face. There is a superimposed cross with lateral arms of type A12, and inward facing terminal heads with incised circular eyes and transverse incisions on the jowl. The heads intrude upon the moulding. The arm-pits of the cross are drilled. The upper panels are dissimilar. On the right a York winged beast has all the attributes, its collar contoured and barred. Its body consists of median-incised interlace, a terminal register of a pattern F loop and included U-bends, and below, a unit of simple pattern F, which resolves below in confronted animal-head terminals. On the left is an interlace using median-incised strands: a terminal register of a pattern F loop with included U-bend terminals, and below, a unit of simple pattern F, the strands again resolving at the base into a pair of confronted animal-head terminals.

Below the cross-arms the panels are mirror image and each contains a York winged beast. The interlaced body is median-incised and has bifurcated strands. Only the edge mouldings decorated the vertical edges.

Discussion

Identical with nos. 35–7. It may be part of the same monument as no. 36.

Date
Late ninth to tenth century
References
Pattison 1973, 212, pl. XLVIII, b; Lang 1978b, pl. 8.16; Lang 1978c, 20, pl. IVd
Endnotes

1. All the pieces from the Minster were discovered as a result of the excavations of 1966-71 by H. Ramm and D. Phillips. They are to be published as a handlist, together with a critical essay, in the forthcoming Royal Commission volume on the excavations. That publication will provide the finer detail of their archaeological contexts, both in a table, and in a description of the excavation of the south transept cemetery.
The following are general references to the stones: Wilson 1978, 142; Hall 1980b, 7, 21; Lang 1988b, 8, 12; Lang 1989, 5.


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