Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: High Melton 5, West Riding of Yorkshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Built into east wall of south porch, inside.
Evidence for Discovery
See High Melton 1.
Church Dedication
St James
Present Condition
Incomplete and worn
Description

The upper part of a round-headed grave-marker with a cross of type E8 in very shallow relief.

Discussion

Appendix A item (Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)

See High Melton 3.

Date
Eleventh century
References
Unpublished
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the High Melton stones: Morris 1911, 353; Collingwood 1915a, 218; Morris 1923, 353, 549; Pontefract and Hartley [1936], 75; Mee 1941, 186; Ryder 1982, 93.

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