Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Ormesby 04, Yorkshire North Riding Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
On window sill at north-east end of north aisle, behind piano
Evidence for Discovery
First recorded by Collingwood in 1907, but possibly discovered at the same time as nos. 2 and 3
Church Dedication
St Cuthbert
Present Condition
Now slab-shaped: the top, ends and one side have been scabbled away, presumably for building purposes.
Description

Part of one side of a recumbent monument with pitched roof. Two rows of type 4 tegulae remain.

Discussion

This is probably a type i (house type) hogback (Lang 1984a, 101), although since the ridge has been lost it might be a later coped grave-cover.

Date
Tenth to eleventh century(?)
References
Collingwood 1907, 379; Collingwood 1912, 115, 126; Collingwood 1915, 284; Page, W. 1923, 282; Morris, J. 1931, 282; Pevsner 1966, 276; Lang 1967, 124, fig. 34; Brown, M. 1976b, 9; Morris, C. 1976a, 144; Morris, C. 1976b, 11; Brown, M. 1979, 44; Brown and Gallagher 1984, 51; Lang 1984a, 87, 103, 156, pl. on 157
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Ormesby stones: Collingwood 1908, 120; Mee 1944, 175; Brown, M. 1979, 44; Horton 1979, 309; Brown and Gallagher 1984, 51; Daniels 1995, 81.

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