Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire
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Current Display: Stanwick 23, Yorkshire North Riding 
Overview
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 293
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Present Location
Evidence for Discovery
Church Dedication
Present Condition
Description
Romanesque architectural fragment with an acanthus trail terminating in a bird head with arrow-headed tongue; possibly from a frieze or door-jamb, built into the exterior south wall of the nave, east of Stanwick 18.
Discussion
Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period). [1]
Date
References
Collingwood 1907, 270, 271, 277, 283, 292, 393, fig. a on 392; Collingwood 1912, 127; Collingwood 1915, 287; Edleston 1923–4a, 292n; Pevsner 1966, 355
Endnotes
[1] All these entries are by D.C., except where noted.
