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Object type: Medieval worked stones
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 298
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Medieval worked stones were noted by the Royal Commission in the farmyard walls at Tregate Castle Farm in 1931, but with no detailed descriptions given. After an extensive check of as many walls as possible, the present author observed the two stones described below. No. 1 is a jamb stone with a splay on one face (probably from a window) high in the roadside face of the yard wall. There are also what might be several other worked stones in this wall, but none has any surviving carved detail. Just across the road, on the top of a field boundary wall, there are several large pieces of the bowl of a 'cider' press together with a large piece of the press wheel itself (no. 2). These have all been cut from a coarse, pebbly conglomerate stone. No. 1 may be twelfth/thirteenth century in date; no. 2 is probably post-medieval. None of these fragments looked remotely Anglo-Saxon.
