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Object type: Fragment of grave-marker or -cover [1]
Measurements: L. 43.3 cm (17.1 in) W. 31.2 > 30.4 cm (12.3 > 12 in) D. 17.9 cm (7 in)
Stone type: [Sandstone]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 1046–7
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 256
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Part of a rectangular slab with a double rolled edge moulding. Near to the broken face there is the remains of a vertical incised line which may be the shaft of a cross.
This seems to be part of a grave-marker or -cover with a central incised cross, and is paralleled by nos. 39 and 40.
[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.
[2] Information and measurements by courtesy of Sarah Jennings, English Heritage.
