Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Stanwick 14, Yorkshire North Riding Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Built into the interior west wall of the south aisle, adjacent to no. 6
Evidence for Discovery
See Stainton 3 (St Peter and St Paul). Perhaps one of Collingwood's numbered pieces.
Church Dedication
St John the Baptist
Present Condition
Only one face visible; worn
Description

One end and two sides have a double plain edge moulding in a damaged state. Within the panel is a ring-knot laced by return loops, the long lying strand serving as a bar terminal. The strands are doubled, and humped in section.

Discussion

The ring-knot is a familiar motif in Anglo-Scandinavian sculpture. This might be either one end of a shaft or part of a grave-slab.

Date
Late ninth to mid tenth century
References
Collingwood 1907, 394; Collingwood 1912, 127; Morris, C., 1976a, 145
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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