The Corpus: Upleatham 05 (old church)

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Upleatham 05 (old church), Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Fragment [1]

Measurements: H. 19.5 > 17 cm (7.7 > 6.7 in) W. 28.5 cm (11.2 in) D. Built in

Stone type: As Upleatham 1 (old church, St Andrew) except containing sporadic limonite nodules. Light grey (2.5YR 7/1) incipiently surface-burnt to a pink colour (7.5YR 7/2). Stone provenance as Upleatham 1 (old church, St Andrew)

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 834

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 216-217

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Present Location

Built into the south exterior wall of the old church, under the blocked western arch, 2.7 m above ground and 0.9 m from the west buttress

Evidence for Discovery

None. First recorded in 1986 during the Cleveland County Archaeology Churches Survey (Tees Archaeology S.M.R., 0511)

Church Dedication

St Andrew

Present Condition

Weathered and apparently burnt; only one face visible

Description

Incomplete panel, possibly from the narrow face of a shaft, with the remains of edge mouldings on three sides, framing the terminal of a run of ring-chain with split bands (cf. Cramp 1991, fig. 26 Cvii).

Discussion

This type of vertebral ring-chain is derived from the Borre style, and is found in Scandinavian-dominated areas such as the Isle of Man and Cumbria (Bailey and Cramp 1988, 24, ills. 298, 681). The only other example in this region is on Kirklevington 5 (Ill. 417).

D.C.

Date

First half of tenth century

References

Unpublished

Endnotes

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