Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Whitby 40 (abbey), Yorkshire North Riding Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
English Heritage North Region store, Helmsley (EH 88092807)
Evidence for Discovery
See Whitby 1 (abbey, St Peter and St Hilda).
Church Dedication
St Peter and St Hilda
Present Condition
Very worn
Description

The decoration which is only on one face is very faint, but there are traces of double incised mouldings on both edges and what may be a central stem, probably for a cross-shaft.

Discussion

This is not a very diagnostic piece, but compare nos. 39 and 41 for a similar decoration.

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Unpublished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.

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