Volume 3: York and Eastern Yorkshire

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Current Display: York St Mary Bishophill Junior 09a - b, York Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
York Archaeological Trust, York
Evidence for Discovery
Found and taken out during survey of fabric by York Archaeological Trust in 1980, built into ground floor chamber of tower: a, at east end of north wall; b, north of arch
Church Dedication
St Mary Bishophill Junior
Present Condition
Broken and worn
Description

Two pieces of a slab-like closure screen.

a: On each broad face is a double flat edge moulding running round three sides of the fragment. The narrow edge has a thin flat edge moulding.

b: Identical with fragment a, though only one corner survives.

Discussion

Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).

The decoration is so meagre that nothing is diagnostic.

Date
Eleventh century
References
Moulden and Tweddle 1986, 29, nos. 36–7; Wenham et al. 1987, 117; Tweddle 1987a, 120–1, fig. 46
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