Lost? Not found by D.C.

Three stone coffins together with human remains were found prior to 1860 and the location was marked on the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map, 400 m to the east of Seaton Hall. A church at Seaton was recorded in Domesday Book and subsequently in about 1160. One of the coffins, decorated with interlace, was noted in 1874 'doing duty as a water-trough on the slope of the hill to the left of the approach to the farm-house called Seaton Hall from the road' (Atkinson 1874, I, 215).

Unknown

Atkinson's report is the only record: 'Snow, and the abundant growth of rushes and grass about it, prevented accurate examination ... but the presence of the marked interlaced sculpture of the Anglo-Saxon period on part of the exposed side settled the question of its origin, and – as will probably be admitted – also of that of the site of its discovery' (ibid.).

Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).

Coffins hollowed from a single stone, as this appears to have been, are uncommon monuments in the pre-Conquest period, but a decorated stone sarcophagus of this type is known from St Alkmund's church, Derby, which Radford dated to the ninth century (Radford 1976, 45–6, pls. 4–5). Another later example (possibly one of three) survives at Govan in Scotland (Radford 1967, 174–6; Spearman 1994). In both cases the burials appear to have been of high status (cf. Bede 1969, 366, iv.11, 394, iv.19).

J.L. suggests that Barningham 1 was a coffin lid (p. 59, Ill. 9).

Pre-Conquest(?)

Robinson 1860, 308; Atkinson 1874, I, 215; Atkinson 1894, 195n; I'Anson 1913, 60; Page, W. 1923, 366

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