Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Lythe 18, Yorkshire North Riding Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Beneath the tower, on the floor
Evidence for Discovery
See Lythe 1a–b (St Oswald)
Church Dedication
St Oswald
Present Condition
One end of a hogback roof; the scar on the top suggests a lost ridge.
Description

A (long) : On a steep pitch are three rows of type 2b tegulae. The broken side below the eaves was vestigial and has faint traces of interlace strands. At the end of the tegulation is a rectangular panel framed by a modelled moulding, containing closed circuit interlace in six-cord plait whose upper parts are lost.

B (end) : Plain and inclined inwards.

C (long) : As face A.

Discussion

A type k hogback; see Lythe 17 (St Oswald)

Date
First half of tenth century
References
Collingwood 1911, 293–4, figs. kk–ll on 295; Collingwood 1912, 126; Collingwood 1927a, 167, fig. 203; Lang 1967, 99–100, no. 2, pl. XXIX; Lang 1984a, 101, 148, no. 2, pl. on 149
Endnotes
None

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