Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire
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Current Display: Whitby 39 (abbey), Yorkshire North Riding
Overview
Object type:
Measurements: L. 38 cm (15 in) W. 40.4 cm (17.3 in) D. 9 cm (3.5 in)
Stone type: Fine-grained, poorly sorted, feldspathic sandstone with prominent bedding planes parallel to the main flat faces of the grave-marker. Very pale brown, but partially burnt and oxidised to a reddish brown colour (2.5YR 5/4). Although an inferior stone, probably still from the deltaic sandstones of the Aislaby Quarries (see no. 1).
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 1037–9
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 255
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Present Location
English Heritage North Region store, Helmsley (EH 88092821)
Evidence for Discovery
See Whitby 1 (abbey, St Peter and St Hilda).
Church Dedication
St Peter and St Hilda
Present Condition
Broken but surviving carving crisp
Description
Part of a rectangular slab with central grooved stem outlined by roll mouldings and triple incised edge mouldings.
Discussion
This seems to be the central portion of a grave-marker or -cover with a central cross, only the stem of which survives. Compare nos. 40, 41 and 42.
R.C.
Date
Eighth to ninth century
References
Unpublished
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Whitby stones: Hood 1927, 38, 45, 49; Kendall 1932, 9–10, 26–7, 28; Peers and Radford 1943, 33–40; Clapham 1952, 11; Wilson, D. 1964, 9; Cramp 1965b, 4; Fellows-Jensen 1972, 218; Cramp 1976a, 228; Cramp 1976b, 455–7; Rahtz 1976, 460; Cramp 1978a, 7; Bailey 1980, 81, 82; Okasha 1983, 118; Cramp 1984, 9, 79, 109, 180, 222; Higgitt 1986b, 130–1, 134, 148; Bailey and Cramp 1988, 55, 56, 85, 154; Cramp 1989, 223; Lang 1989a, 67; Lang 1990a, 2–3; Higgitt 1991, 45; Lang 1991, 24, 109, 138, 139; Cramp 1992, 8, 24, 107, 224, 252; Okasha 1992, 84; Cramp 1993, 68–9, 71; Fellows-Jensen 1995, 177; Higgitt 1995, 229–36; Rahtz 1995, 7–8; Bailey 1996a, 50–1, 111; Hawkes 1999b, 403, 410–16; Karkov 1999, 133–4; Stocker 2000, 200; Stopford 2000, 102, 104.
