Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Stainton 02, Yorkshire North Riding Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Lost? Unknown to the present incumbent
Evidence for Discovery
Found on a rockery beside the drive in the vicarage garden, during Cleveland County Archaeology's Churches Survey in June 1986 (Tees Archaeology S.M.R., 0500)
Church Dedication
St Peter and St Paul
Present Condition
Unknown; broken and worn in 1986
Description

(Based on Tees Archaeology S.M.R. record sheet and slide, by courtesy of P. Rowe.)

A (broad): The visible face is divided into two panels, separated by a plain moulding. In the larger panel is the remains of a knot of indeterminate type. In the adjacent corner of the other panel is part of another loop. The strands are broad with no ground between.

B–D: 'The other 3 sides have been chopped & damaged to the point of no decoration surviving' (Tees Archaeology S.M.R., 0500, stone no. 5).

Discussion

Possibly part of a cross-shaft. It is not certain whether the upper edge in the photograph carries a moulding, but the division of the face into panels suggests some degree of planning despite the crude carving.

D.C.

Date
Tenth to eleventh century
References
Unpublished
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Stainton stones: Lofthouse 1896–8, 17; Morris, J. 1904, 361–2, 420; Collingwood 1908, 120; Morris, J. 1931, 362, 417; Mee 1941, 227; Brown, M. 1979, 44; Horton 1979, 159; Daniels 1995, 81.

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