The Corpus: Upleatham 04 (old church)

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Upleatham 04 (old church), Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Hogback fragment

Measurements: H. 37 cm (14.5 in) W. 26 cm (10.2 in) L. 40 cm (15.7 in)

Stone type: As Upleatham 1 (old church, St Andrew) except that this good quality stone is very pale brown coloured (10YR 7/3).

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 835–8

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 216

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Present Location

Kirkleatham Old Hall Museum, accession number LD 98/1989

Evidence for Discovery

This seems to be the 'child's gable-ended grave slab, probably of the mid-11th century', which was found during the 1970–74 excavations (Knight 1976, 41). Formerly with nos. 1 and 2 inside St Andrew's new church in the village, in nave by west wall. Noted during the Cleveland County Archaeology Churches Survey in 1986 (Tees Archaeology S.M.R., 0511). This church, which was built in 1835 on a new site (NZ 632194), was made redundant in 1989 and is now a private house.

Church Dedication

St Andrew

Present Condition

Smoothly recut, probably for use as a building block

Description

One end of a hogback, the sides vertically dressed. Only a small part of the ridge survives, with the remains of linear ornament. The upper pitch of the roof is decorated with incised type 7 tegulae. The end-beast is a simple mask on top of the ridge with incised circular eyes and rudimentary ears. Both ends of the stone are damaged.

Discussion

This is a type e (dragonesque) hogback, closely resembling the two examples found at Lythe, nos. 26 and 27 (Ills. 558–60, 561–4), which both have an end-beast mask on top of the stone. J.L. noted that this type was confined chiefly to the east coast of Yorkshire (Lang 1984a, 99).

D.C.

Date

First half of tenth century

References

Knight 1976, 41

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Upleatham stones: Gallagher 1987, 21; Daniels 1995, 81.