Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: Bolsterstone 1, West Riding of Yorkshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
In the churchyard, south of the chancel, standing on another sandstone block.
Evidence for Discovery
First mentioned in Kenworthy 1899, who believed it to be part of a prehistoric structure.
Church Dedication
St Mary
Present Condition
One side has been partly broken so that one of the two sockets has also been partly cut away
Description

An undecorated massive sandstone base with two sockets. All sides are plain.

Discussion

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

There is no possibility of dating such a plain piece definitively, but there is another example in the West Riding of a base with a double socket, one of which still holds a pre-Conquest cross, at Ecclesfield (p. 150, Ills. 249–51).

Date
Possibly pre-Conquest
References
Kenworthy 1899, 157–60, figs. 1, 11; Innocent 1910, 94; Morris 1911, 113; Collingwood 1915a, 146; Mee 1941, 64; Pevsner 1959, 109; Ryder 1982, 111
Endnotes
None

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