The Corpus: Thoresby 01

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Thoresby 01, Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Cross-shaft fragment [1]

Measurements: Not recorded

Stone type: Not recorded

Plate numbers in printed volume:

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 299

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Present Location

Now untraceable' (Yorkshire Dales National Park S.M.R., SE 08 NW 11 – YD4467)

Evidence for Discovery

Noted in a letter from William Horne, 1910 (transcribed in the Ordnance Survey Name Book). The shaft was found in 1862 in a wall near Chapel Bottom in Thoresby township (site marked on the 1913 O.S. 1:2500 map, Yorkshire North Riding 67.7). Horne's collection was sold in 1941, the fragment going to Castle Bolton before being sold again in the 1970s. [2]

Church Dedication

Present Condition

Unknown

Description

Horne's letter of 1910 described it as the upper part of an Anglo-Saxon cross. Romilly Allen's sketch was shown to Collingwood, who identified 'a four-ply single-strap interlacing, of open work' (1907, 402).[3]

Discussion

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

Collingwood compared the interlace with that of the narrow faces of Stonegrave 1 (Lang 1991, ills. 834, 836).

Date

Pre-Conquest

References

Bogg [1895], 241; Speight 1897, 442; Collingwood 1907, 402; Bogg 1908, 619–20; Collingwood 1912, 127; White 1997, 47 ['Carperby']

Endnotes

[1] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 1: Ordnance Survey Name Book (1910), pp. 65, 68.
[2] The author is grateful to Mrs June Hall for gathering all this information. (Additional material by courtesy of Mr Robert White, Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority.)
[3] Romilly Allen's sketch does not appear to survive amongst his papers deposited in the British Library (BL Add. MSS 37539–37628). (Eds.)