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Object type: Part of baluster shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 30.5 cm (12 in); W. (base): 28.5 cm (11.25 in), (shaft): 20.3 cm (8 in); D. (base): 22.8 cm (9 in), (shaft): 15.2 cm (6 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained, non-micaceous, brownish-yellow (10YR 6/6) sandstone; deltaic channel sandstone, Saltwick Formation, Aalenian, Middle Jurassic; possibly from Aislaby, near Whitby (see Fig. 5)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 878-881
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 225
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A roughly rectangular base is chamfered towards a sub-cylindrical column, which is surrounded by four bevelled rings, closely packed, giving the effect of crude spiralling. The column is broken. A vertical groove has been scored down the column and at its end is a hole bored through the base.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
This is a rare example of a baluster shaft in this southern part of Northumbria. Its base and rings reflect the one at Greatham (Cramp 1984, II, pl. 76, 379–80) but the workmanship is much more rustic and a lathe was not used. It may, however, point to an early stone church at Hackness.
