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Object type: Part of hogback
Measurements: L. 51 cm (20.1 in) W. 20.5 > 18.5 cm (8.1 > 7.3 in) H. 41.5 cm (16.3 in)
Stone type: As Gilling West 1 (St Agatha), but a light yellowish brown colour. Hogback slightly scorched on the flank to light red colour (2.5YR 6/6).
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 294–5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 118
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A plain ridge of coped section narrows at the crest.
A (long): Below the ridge are three rows of type 2c tegulae, the spaces between them deeply cut. Beneath the eaves at the narrow end is a scroll. In the centre is a large star-like motif with rays radiating clockwise. Between the motifs is a filler. The side is perpendicular and plain at the base.
B and D (ends): Broken away.
C (long): The tegulation is as on face A. Beneath the eaves is a debased scroll, roughly picked, with undulating stem with off-shoot scrolls and tangential tendrils. In the centre at the top is a triquetra filler. The base is plain.
This hogback, related to type h (scroll), has idiosyncratic ornament, especially the star motif which is unique. A chance parallel might be the 'Sun Stone' at Govan, Scotland (Allen and Anderson 1903, fig. 486b; Radford 1967, fig. 9).
