Thirsk Museum, accession no. 2979, on loan from H. R. Gillespie

Noted by H. B. McCall in 1910, but subsequently thought to be lost. Sought by Susan Harrison and rediscovered by Mr Gillespie on a rockery in the Old Rectory garden, October 1999; identified by D.C. The church was restored in 1874 and worked stone found in the rebuilding was acquired by the rector (Susan Harrison, pers. comm.).

St John Baptist

Top and one end broken, other end and base recut; weathered

A (long) : On the surviving lower pitch of the roof are the remains of two rows of tegulation, type 2b. Beneath the eaves on the vertical face is a run of scroll and pellet with two volutes surviving; the lower part of these has been cut away.

C (long) : As face A, but more damaged.

This is a type h hogback, the scroll variety, widely distributed across northern England (Lang 1984a, 101), but found particularly in the region at Crathorne (Ills. 133–7). The lost fragment from Bedale, no. 5 (Ill. 8), had similar pellets.

It is particularly sad that the author was not able to examine this monument, and also Upleatham 4, having contributed so much to the study of hogbacks (Lang 1967; 1972–4; 1984a).

First half of tenth century

McCall 1910, 64

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