The Corpus: Gargrave 7

Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: Gargrave 7, West Riding of Yorkshire

Overview

Object type: Part of cross-head [1]

Measurements: (after Collingwood 1915a) H. 28 cm (11 in); W. 38 cm (15 in); D. 15 > 11.5 cm (6 > 4.5 in)

Stone type: Not recorded

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 296-7

Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 158-9

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Present Location

Lost? Not seen in the church display.

Evidence for Discovery

See Gargrave 1. In 1912 cemented into rockery on south side of the vicarage lawn (Collingwood 1915a, 174).

Church Dedication

St Andrew

Present Condition

Unknown

Description

A ring-head of type 2b with arms of type E8. Both faces are outlined with a plain moulding. It is of the same type as Gargrave 6, but Collingwood's drawing (ibid., 174, figs. c–d) suggests it was not part of the same head.

A (broad): The centre seems to have been dressed away. There seem to have been three loose pellets between the two surviving arms. The left arm has interlace, apparently one loop of pattern F with joined terminals, which forms in the lower arm a less regular Stafford Knot (simple pattern E), incorporating a pellet and with one side twisted into a single loop.

B and D (narrow): Not shown by Collingwood

C (broad): This is drawn by Collingwood as a mirror image of face A.

Discussion

See the discussion of Gargrave 6, which this head closely resembles.

Date

Tenth century

References

Parez 1893, 90, figs. V, VI; Collingwood 1912, 129; Collingwood 1915a, 174, 274, 280, figs. c–d on 174; Collingwood 1926, 327; Collingwood 1927, 141, fig. 156 c–d; Firby and Lang 1981, 23; Lang 1991, 31, 216

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Gargrave stones: Morris 1911, 225; Collingwood 1915b, 334; Morris 1923, 225, 549; Mee 1941, 141; Pevsner 1959, 216.