The Corpus: Ingleby Arncliffe 03

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Ingleby Arncliffe 03, Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Hogback [1] [2]

Measurements: L. 76.4 cm (30 in) W. (ends) 15.2 and 25.4 cm (6 and 10 in) H. (ends) 17.8 and 25.4 cm (7 and 10 in); (crown) 29.2 cm (11.5 in)

Stone type: Medium-grained feldspathic deltaic sandstone, fabric well sorted with sub-angular grains; the stone is patchily limonite rich. Pale brown (10YR 6/3). Stone provenance as Ingleby Arncliffe 1 (All Saints)

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 329–32

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 125-126

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Present Location

Yorkshire Museum, York, on display (accession no. 1993.329)

Evidence for Discovery

'Found at Ingleby Arncliffe', and given to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society in 1879 by the Rev. R. J. Steele ((—) 1880a, 27; Wellbeloved 1881, 69)

Church Dedication

All Saints

Present Condition

Complete

Description

A plain, house-shaped hogback. The curved ridge is plain and the base uneven.

A and C (long) : The roof-pitch is plain and is bound at its eaves by a heavy roll moulding. Below this the sides are vertical and roughly axe dressed.

B (end) : The ridge moulding is joined to that of the eaves by a continuous run along the gable edge. A vertical groove represents a 'kingpost'. The plane of the face is flat and vertical.

D (end) : As face B, but without the vertical groove.

Discussion

This type i hogback is a skeuomorph of a house with a curved roof-ridge. The kingpost suggests that origin rather than a house-shaped reliquary shrine (Lang 1984a, 101). The house type is a well-known Viking building like those at Trelleborg and Fyrket in Denmark (Schmidt 1970). There is no stylistic evidence for dating. Plain hogbacks with similar architectural features are also found at Lythe (Ills. 575–6, 580–1, 582–5, 589–2).

Date

Mid ninth to mid eleventh century

References

(—) 1880a, 27; Wellbeloved 1881, 69, no. 15; Wellbeloved 1891, 77, no. 15; Brown, W. 1901, 21; [Brown, W.] 1902a, 139; Collingwood 1909a, 186, 193, figs. a–c on 190; Collingwood 1912, 115, 123n, 124, fig. on 122; Collingwood 1915, 285; Collingwood 1927a, 165; Walton 1954, 72, fig. 4b; Lang 1967, 87–9, pl. XXVI; Schmidt 1970, 23–4, fig. 9; Lang 1971, 156; Schmidt 1973, 75, fig. 33e; Bailey 1980, 98, fig. 13e; Cramp 1984, 173; Lang 1984a, 101, 142, no. 1, pl. on 143; Bailey and Cramp 1988, 29, 125; Schmidt 1994, 152–4, 155, figs. 69, 70; Everson and Stocker 1999, 286

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Ingleby Arncliffe stones: Allen 1889, 230; Hodges 1894, 195; Allen 1895, 148; Collingwood 1908, 120; Collier 1910–11, 21; Morris, J. 1931, 417–18; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 220, 248; Brown, M. 1979, 41; Lang 1984a, 87.

[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 3: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 818 (Romilly Allen collection).