Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire
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Current Display: Kirklevington 24, Yorkshire North Riding
Overview
Object type: Fragment [1]
Measurements: L. 26 cm (10.2 in) W. 14 cm (5.5 in) D. Built in
Stone type: As other Saltwick Formation (Aalenian, Middle Jurassic) deltaic sandstone at Kirklevington. Brownish yellow (10YR 6/6)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 461
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 152
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Present Location
Built into the exterior west wall of the vestry, 0.15 m above ground and 0.6 m from the north-west corner
Evidence for Discovery
Noted by C. D. Morris in 1976. The vestry was built in 1883.
Church Dedication
St Martin
Present Condition
Very worn
Description
A twist of broad-band interlace, with a possible edge moulding above.
Discussion
Now almost weathered away. Morris identified this fragment with Collingwood's (4), but that may have been no. 13 above.
D.C.
Date
Pre-Conquest
References
?Collingwood 1907, 351 (4); Morris, C. 1976a, 143; Morris, C. 1976b, 11
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.
