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Object type: Part of grave-marker(?)
Measurements: (after Haigh 1875a) H. 38 cm (15 in); W. 18 cm (7 in); D. Not recorded
Stone type: Not recorded
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 807
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 277
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Haigh provided a very stylised drawing of a design he himself described as 'very peculiar, — a composition of circles, all scratched slightly with a compass, and a cross formed by triple lines' (Haigh 1875a, 365). The drawing gives no sense of the stone as an object. It shows only an irregular outline, within which five double outlined circles, apparently with compass points at the centre, form a cross within a larger circle. This stands on a triple line apparently forming a shaft, traversed about a third of the way down by a short triple crossbar, around the crossing of which is another circle, with below another, larger, double-outlined circle.
Between the circular head of the cross and the upper circle on the shaft Haigh showed the remains of an inscription, which appears to read:
DVG || V [—]
Appendix A item (Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
Haigh did not describe the letters which are fitted in on either side of the upper part of the triple shaft, except to say that the arrangement echoed that of the Hartlepool tombstones, such as Hartlepool 8 (Cramp 1984, pl. 85.447) . Collingwood (1915a, 183) described the letters as 'Hiberno-Saxon uncials', presumably on the basis of Haigh's drawing, but concluded that, in its absence 'there is not enough information to explain or date this stone', which seems a fair assessment.