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Object type: Shaft fragment [1] [2]
Measurements: L. 28 cm (11 in) W. c. 17 cm (6.7 in) D. Built in
Stone type: As Brompton In Allertonshire 7 (St Thomas); also weathered
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 50
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 70
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The edge moulding is lost but at one end is a broad transverse moulding. A run of six stages of closed circuit plain plait has a slightly modelled strand.
The design is controlled and closely related in cutting technique to Brompton In Allertonshire 7 (St Thomas).
[1]The following are general references to the Brompton stones: (—) 1867–8, lxxxviii; Rowe 1870, 240; (—) 1871–2, xxiv; Greenwell 1869–79a, lx; Rowe 1877, 61–4; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; Browne 1885–6, 124, 128; Saywell 1886, 481; Allen 1887, 126, 386, fig. 28; (—) 1890–5a, viii; Haverfield and Greenwell 1899, 125–6; Bulmer 1890, 389; Hodges 1894, 195; Morris, J. 1904, 32, 84–5, 420; Bogg 1908, 28–32, ills. on 29 and 32; Page, W. 1914, 430, 431; Morris, J. 1931, 33, 86, 87, 417; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 219–20, 245; Mee 1941, 41–2; Fisher 1959, 89; Pevsner 1966, 90, pl. 8; Bailey 1980, 85, 100, 240, 252, 255, 265; Kerr and Kerr 1982, 38–9 and ill.; Morris, R. 1983, 7; Cramp 1984, 11, 30, 93; Bailey and Cramp 1988, 54; Lang 1988a, 14, 24, 56; Cambridge 1989, 378; Richards 1991, 80, 119, 124, ill. 81; Everson and Stocker 1999, 138; Stocker 2000, 205–6.
[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 8: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 505 (Romilly Allen collection).
