Yorkshire Museum, York

'Found with several rude wooden coffins and some other Saxon remains, in excavating for the New Market, or Parliament Street' (Wellbeloved 1852, 27). 'Some of these coffins were discovered in 1878, under Messrs. Makins & Bean's shop. The place marks the site of an ancient cemetery, apart from any existing church' (Collingwood 1909, 162, citing York Museum Catalogue)

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Face C cut away; especially worn on face D; otherwise carving fairly crisp

A (broad): There is a flat edge moulding, damaged in places, which passes above round a panel formed by bold pellet strips, some of them domed. They enclose a short run of four-strand plain plait using median-incised strands which are particularly broad. It is clumsily executed. The lower part of the face is undecorated.

B (narrow): The left-hand flat moulding survives. At the base of the panel is a horizontal run of four pellets, above which is a strip of double cable. Above this is an interlace exactly resembling face A's, though on a slightly smaller scale. The lower part of the stone is plain.

C (broad): Defaced.

D (narrow): The lower portion is plain. A row of pellets is surrounded by a strip of double cable, and there was a similar strip at the top. The worn interlace was probably the same as on the surviving faces. The lower part is plain.

This unambitious stone belongs to the York Plait and Pellet Group (see Chap. 10); it carries the limited repertoire of many York shafts cut from granular millstone grit. The plain plaits and liking for pellets is also found in some hogback ornament.

Tenth century

Wellbeloved 1852, 27, no. 3; Wellbeloved 1854, 32, no. 3; Wellbeloved 1858, 38, no. 3; Wellbeloved 1861, 40, no. 3; Wellbeloved 1869, 41, no. 3; Wellbeloved 1875, 46–7, no. 3; Wellbeloved 1881, 67, no. 4; Wellbeloved 1891, 74–5, no. 4; Collingwood 1909, 162, figs. a–c on 163