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In 1874 the Rev. J. C. Atkinson wrote: 'The modern cemetery of Hinderwell occupies the precise site which is marked out by the stones at its angles as being the supposed consecrated ground of former times; and in digging a grave therein not very long since, several fragments of sculptured stone were thrown out which can hardly have been anything else save portions of one (or more) of the ancient hog-backed grave-stones of the eighth century, the interlaced carving of the period remaining as well as indications of shape ...' (Atkinson 1874, I, 215–16).

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

Earlier references by Ord (1846), Whellan (1859), and Robinson (1860) may include similar sculptured stones, but only specify 'stone coffins' which were found in the churchyard. Hogbacks have subsequently been found nearby at Easington and Lythe (q.v.), but although Atkinson may have been influenced by the spectacular discoveries at Brompton in 1867 (p. 65), this type of monument would have been unfamiliar to earlier writers. Atkinson thought that the nineteenth-century graveyard at Hinderwell had expanded over an earlier site to the north of the parish church known as the 'Chapel Hill' (Atkinson 1874, I, 214–15).

Pre-Conquest(?)

?Ord 1846, 294; ?Whellan 1859, II, 790; ?Robinson 1860, 308; Atkinson 1874, I, 215–16; Atkinson 1894, 120; Page, W. 1923, 365; Morris, J. 1931, 417

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