Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Stanwick 19, Yorkshire North Riding Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Built into the interior west wall of the south aisle, below no. 8; partly obscured by a pew
Evidence for Discovery
See Stainton 3 (St Peter and St Paul); first noted by author, May 1996
Church Dedication
St John the Baptist
Present Condition
Broken; one face visible
Description

A sub-circular element in a narrow modelled strand contains damaged and hatched elements. Three frond-like elements lie to the right.

J.L.

Discussion

J.L. saw this fragment as 'Probably post-Conquest', but it bears a striking resemblance to a grave-marker from Whithorn, Wigtownshire, which carries a form of disc-headed cross with tightly curved armpits and stopped-plait interlace on the shaft (Collingwood 1927a, fig. 80; Bailey and Cramp 1988, ills. 688–9). Stanwick 8 above (Ill. 773) may also be of this type.

D.C.

Date
Tenth 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Unpublished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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