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Object type: Architectural feature [1]
Measurements: H. 70 cm (27.5 in); W. 20.3 cm (8 in); D. 20.3 cm (8 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained, slightly micaceous, reddish-yellow (7.5YR 6/6) sandstone; deltaic channel sandstone, Saltwick Formation, Aalenian, Middle Jurassic; perhaps from Aislaby, near Whitby (see Fig. 5)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 601-604
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 170-171
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Only one long face is decorated.
A (broad): The left-hand edge moulding is double, of narrow bands of equal width. The inner moulding on the right-hand edge is similar, but the outer one is very broad and flat. The panel within contains a row of four large circular pellets in low relief. Between them are pairs of simple pattern E loops formed by two finely modelled strands forming angular glides which pass round the pellets as hexagons.
B and C: Broken away.
D: Scabbled, with finely-dressed, diagonal tooling.
This piece is probably a lintel or jamb from a doorway, as Collingwood'suggested (Collingwood 1907, 359). The variation in the width of the mouldings and the confinement of the design to one face point to this. The decoration is finely carved in 6 in registers on a 0.75 in unit of measure. There are no foliate elements. A rather later date than the other architectural piece, Lastingham 8, can be postulated in the formalisation of the design compared with the other's naturalistic grape bunches. It must be from a later phase of stone building at Lastingham than Bede describes.
Adcock recognizes in the interlace a 3.5 cm unit which tallies with a Ripon, West Riding, group rather than Kirby Misperton 1 (Ills. 508–9, 512), whose technique does echo this piece's (Adcock 1974, I, 130).
