Volume 13: Derbyshire and Staffordshire
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Current Display: Bakewell 36, Derbyshire
Overview
Object type: Fragment [1]
Measurements: H. 25 cm (9.8 in); W. 17 cm (6.7 in); D. 16 cm (6.3 in)
Stone type: A fine-grained white/buff sandstone; noted as probably being the same stone type as Bakewell 13
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 98
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 143
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Present Location
Unknown. It was recorded in c. 1991 prior to its loss (Sidebottom 1994, 223).
Evidence for Discovery
See Bakewell 2.
Church Dedication
All Saints
Present Condition
Missing; recorded as being in reasonably good condition although only a fragment
Description
A fragment of semi-spherical sculpted stone, this piece is unlike any other surviving from the region and is possibly unique in the general corpus of Anglo-Saxon sculptural art. It is decorated with a triple-stranded interlace pattern which works its way around the stone as a form of basket-weave.
Discussion
The use of a triple-strand interlace pattern is identical to that preserved on Bakewell 13, itself a rather unusual piece displaying the Anglo-Scandinavian Borre-style ring chain (Ill. 37). It was also noted in 1991 that the stone type of both this piece and Bakewell 13 were almost certainly the same. It is thus feasible that both stones were related in some way. The function of this piece is unknown, although its size and shape suggest it may have been a hogback end-piece. These are normally zoomorphic—animal heads usually looking inwards along the ridge of the monument—but it is possible that this was an unusual variation.
Date
Uncertain, but probably tenth century
References
Routh 1937a, 11; Routh 1937b, 13; Sidebottom 1994, 148, 223 (Bakewell 17)
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Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Bakewell sculptures (other than Bakewell 1): (—) 1845b, 156; Plumptre 1847, 38, 39, 46; (—) 1852, 324; (—) 1855, 67; Hicklin and Wallis 1869, 60; Cox 1877a, 32, 36–7; Cox 1878, 37–8; (—) 1879b, 34; (—) 1885b, 502–3; Allen and Browne 1885, 355; Cox 1887, 37–8; Lynam 1895b, 157; (—) 1900, 89; Cox 1903a; Le Blanc Smith 1904a, 195; Firth 1905, 264; Arnold-Bemrose 1910, 107; (—) 1914a, 401–2; (—) 1914b, 36; Browne 1915, 219; Collingwood 1927, 136; Moncrieff 1927, 86; Tudor 1929, 91; Brown 1937, 94–5; Routh 1937a, 7–8; Routh 1937b, 8–9; Fisher 1959, 72; Thompson 1961, 218; Radford 1961a, 210; Butler 1964, 112; Taylor and Taylor 1965, I, 36; Cramp 1977, 192, 218–19; Pevsner and Williamson 1978, 71; Cramp 1985, 311; Craven and Stanley 1986, 27; Bailey 1990, 2; Jones 1993, 68; Leonard 1993, 48; Sidebottom 1994, 151; Bailey 1996, 11; Barnatt and Smith 1997, 57; Sidebottom 1999, 218; Elliott 2001–2; Sharpe 2002, 61; Hopkinson et al. 2004, 15; Blair 2005, 315, 342, 469–70; Bergius 2012, 189; Stocker and Everson 2015, 16; Ryder 2016, 13, 14, 16, 17
