Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: High Melton 6, West Riding of Yorkshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Built into south wall of south porch, inside.
Evidence for Discovery
See High Melton 1.
Church Dedication
St James
Present Condition
Badly weathered
Description

Part of a slab with the incised outline of the upper part of an angular cross of type B8, with very narrow armpits.

Discussion

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

See High Melton 3. Although this is not obviously a round-headed grave-marker, the cross-shape allies it with this range of simple monuments.

Date
Probably 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Unpublished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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