Volume 8: Western Yorkshire
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Current Display: Burnsall 13, West Riding of Yorkshire
Overview
Object type: Hogback [1]
Measurements: L. 149 cm (58.7 in); W. (ends) 21.5 cm (8.5 in); H. 51 cm (20.1 in)
Stone type: As Burnsall (St Wilfrid) 7, with occasional quartzite pebbles up to 10mm in size. Bedding planes seem parallel to the long sides of the hogback. [J.S.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 137-8
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 113-4
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Present Location
As Burnsall 1a–d
Evidence for Discovery
Said to have been found in the 1858 restoration, used as a lintel over the old south door. Previously displayed against the north wall in the north-east chantry chapel.
Church Dedication
St Wilfrid
Present Condition
Worn and weathered
Description
A hogback with stylised muzzled end-beasts reduced to flat masks, the ears barely indicated, and is otherwise completely plain, without even a roof ridge. The sides are scabbled and worn.
Discussion
See Burnsall (St Wilfrid) 11 and 12.
Date
First half of the tenth century
References
Speight 1900, 392, pl. on 391; Collingwood 1912, 128; Stavert 1913, 11–12; Collingwood 1915a, 152, 284; Collingwood 1927, 169; Wall 1930, 51; Mee 1941, 91; Lang 1967, 55–6, 271–2, 280; Lang 1984, 99, 106, 124, no. 3; Coatsworth 2005, 16, no. 12
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Burnsall stones: Whitaker 1878, 504; Browne 1880–4a, lxxiv; Allen and Browne 1885, 353; Browne 1885c, 157; Browne 1885–6, 124; Allen 1889, 230; Allen 1890, 293, 294; Allen 1891, 158; MacMichael 1906, 359; Morris 1911, 143; Collingwood 1915b, 334; Browne 1916, 50; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 218; Mee 1941, 91; Pevsner 1959, 152; Lang 1984, 88.
