Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire
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Current Display: Kirklevington 07, Yorkshire North Riding
Overview
Object type: Shaft fragment [1]
Measurements: H. 38 cm (15 in) W. 25 cm (9.8 in) D. Built in
Stone type: Fine- to medium-grained sandstone, poorly sorted with some mica grains. The colour is masked by lime wash but seems to be pale brown (10YR 6/3). Deltaic sandstone, Saltwick Formation, Aalenian, Middle Jurassic, probably as no. 1
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 423
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 145
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Present Location
Now at St Hilary's church, Picton (NZ 419078), built into interior south wall of chancel next to the arch
Evidence for Discovery
See no. 1. Noted at Kirklevington in 1907 by Collingwood, and in its present position by C. D. Morris. Picton church was built in 1911.
Church Dedication
St Martin
Present Condition
Broken at the top and bottom
Description
A (broad) : The damaged edge moulding flanks a run of bold ring-twist in median-incised strand. Its rings are hardly circular. The cutting is hacked work.
Discussion
The median incision and ring-twist are Anglo-Scandinavian traits.
Date
Late ninth to mid tenth century
References
Collingwood 1907, 271, 288, 352, fig. z on 353; Collingwood 1912, 125; Morris, C. 1976a, 143; Morris, C. 1976b, 11; Cramp 1984, 84
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Kirklevington stones: Browne 1880–4, cx, cxii; Young 1882, 458; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; Frank 1888, 44; Bulmer 1890, 162; Hodges 1894, 195; (—) 1896–1905a, viii; Lofthouse 1896–8, 16; (—) 1899–1900b, 250; Morris, J. 1904, 228–9, 420; Collingwood 1908, 120; Page, W. 1923, 262; Morris, J. 1931, 229, 417; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 217, 248; Mee 1941, 136; Pevsner 1966, 221; Morris, C. 1976a, 143–4; Brown, M. 1979, 44; Horton 1979, 195; Bailey 1980, 252, 255, 265; Cramp 1984, 30; Lang 1991, 42, 214; Daniels 1995, 81; Stocker 2000, 200–3.
