See Gilling West 1 (St Agatha)

Identified by C. D. Morris in 1970s

St Agatha

Broken at each end; reused as a window mullion and cut down. One face survives recutting.

A (broad): On the left are the remains of a very broad edge moulding, 6 cm wide. Within the panel is a cross carved in relief with a narrow edge moulding. It has a long stem, 10.5 cm wide and the arm-pits are wide curves: type B10 or E10. The lower limb has a curved tip, the lateral arms straight tips. The upper limb is lost. Flanking the stem on the left is the terminal of a twist in modelled strand with a three-lobed terminal. A damaged version of the same device lies to the right.

B–E: Recut or broken.

This slab is very similar to Spennithorne 2 (Ill. 745). The type is rare in Yorkshire, though Sockburn 25 provides a rough parallel north of the Tees (Cramp 1984, 154, pl. 153, 798). The trilobate terminal is a leaf form, not zoomorphic.

Tenth to eleventh century

Unpublished

[1] The following are general references to the Gilling West stones: Browne 1880–4, cx, cxii; Allen and Brown 1885, 353; (—) 1890–5b, xxvi; Hodges 1894, 195; Speight 1897, 176; Morris, J. 1904, 161, 420; Bogg 1908, 167; Page, W. 1914, 81; Glynne 1915, 472; Morris, J. 1931, 162, 417; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 189, 247; Mee 1941, 91; Lang and Morris 1976b, 130; Laybourn 1979, 2–3, fig. 1; O'Sullivan and Young 1980, 13; Hatcher 1990, 95; Laybourn 1996, 1–2; Hadley 2000, 242. Gilling West has been identified with Ingetlingum, the site of a monastery founded in the seventh century in atonement for the murder of Oswine, king of Deira (Bede 1896, H.A.A. ch. 2; Bede 1969, H.E. III.14, III.24). The churchyard is curvilinear, but limited excavations in 1979 produced only post-medieval material from beneath the enclosure bank (O'Sullivan and Young 1980, 13–14). (Eds.)