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Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 293
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Two items listed in the British Museum 'Whitby Accessions Register' manuscript notebook, nos. W 9 and W 13, are not from Whitby. Selected finds from the 1920s excavations were accessioned in 1950, after the museum's collections had been dispersed for safekeeping during the Second World War. Subsequently in 1980 'W 13' was identified as a cross-arm from Bath, Somerset (note in Accessions Register, p. 6; see Kendrick 1941a, 75–6, fig. 1, pl. XVIII).
'W 9' can be identified as a fragment from Reculver, Kent, which was published by Peers, but subsequently thought to be lost (Peers 1927, 253, no. 6, fig. 8; Tweddle et al. 1995, 161–2, no. 2, ill. 122). A note by R. Bruce-Mitford in the Accessions Register shows that the piece was rediscovered in a strong room with other Whitby material in 1949, and therefore accessioned with the rest of the stones; but he cautioned, 'This fragment ... may not come from Whitby' (op. cit., p. 5). Both Reculver and Whitby are linked by the figure of Sir Charles Peers. [1]
