The Corpus: York St Mary Bishophill Junior 10

Volume 3: York and Eastern Yorkshire

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Current Display: York St Mary Bishophill Junior 10, York

Overview

Object type: Fragment

Measurements: (After Collingwood): H. 41 cm (16 in); W. 81.5 cm (32 in)

Stone type: Unobtainable

Plate numbers in printed volume:

Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 119-120

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Present Location

Presumably in south face of tower, inside, west of south window (Collingwood 1909, 207)

Evidence for Discovery

None; first mentioned in Collingwood 1909

Church Dedication

St Mary Bishophill Junior

Present Condition

Presumably worn away: 'No longer visible during the survey of the tower by the York Archaeological Trust in 1980' (Moulden and Tweddle 1986, 28)

Description

Described as having a convex edge at the top and carrying an incised circle with six rays (Collingwood 1909, 207).

Discussion

Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).

Collingwood and Tweddle discount the possibility of its being a sundial on the absence of a seating for a gnomon. Obviously it is in a secondary position if it is a dial.

Date

Possibly pre-Conquest

References

Collingwood 1909, 207; Benson 1911, 33; Collingwood 1912a, 123; Ramm 1972, 247; R.C.H.M. 1972, 29, no. 5; Moulden and Tweddle 1986, 28, no. 32; Tweddle 1987a, 122, no. 10

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