The Corpus: Kirby Hill 10

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Kirby Hill 10, Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Part of grave-marker [1] [2]

Measurements: H. 55.8 cm (22 in) W. 28.5 cm (11.2 in) D. 21.5 cm (8.5 in)

Stone type: As Kirby Hill 1 (All Saints, Kirkby-on-the-Moor) except this has been burnt to a red colour (2.5YR 4/6)

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 360–2

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 133-134

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Present Location

Loose beneath the tower

Evidence for Discovery

Found in the 1870 restoration. Subsequently reused as a grave-marker in the churchyard (Rowe 1870; Collingwood 1907; Pevsner 1966).

Church Dedication

All Saints

Present Condition

Worn; scabbled on two faces

Description

A (broad) : The edge moulding has worn away. At the top is a panel containing a roughly cut profile animal facing to the right: it is horse-like, with the four legs and pendant tail shown. Below it is a scored panel division; then, roughly cut from an undulating surface, a prostrate human figure in a kirtle with two straight legs at the left and a narrow waist. The upper parts of the figure are broken away but an arm is extended upwards.

B and D (narrow) : Scabbled.

C (broad) : Very damaged. At the top are the remains of a profile animal like that of face A, the upper hind quarters lost. Scabbled.

E (top) : The flat top has a relief cross, type B6, with three expanded straight arms on a longer stem. It was possibly once in a circle.

Discussion

This is a rustic piece. The cross on the top may be a later re-cutting.

Date

Tenth to eleventh century

References

Rowe 1870, 241, fig. 12; Allen 1891, 171 (9); Morris, J. 1904, 212 (8); Collingwood 1907, 269, 282, 343, fig. i on 339; Collingwood 1912, 124; Collingwood 1913a, 173; Page, W. 1914, 371; Collingwood 1915, 286; Stapleton 1923, 10; Mee 1941, 125; Pevsner 1966, 210

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Kirby Hill stones: Lunn [1867], 13; Allen and Browne 1885, 353; Allen 1890, 293; Bulmer 1890, 734; Hodges 1894, 195, 201; Morris, J. 1904, 212, 420; Thompson 1908, 113; Stapleton 1923, 7, 10, 53; Morris, J. 1931, 212, 417; Pontefract and Hartley [1936], 126; Mee 1941, 125; Taylor and Taylor 1965, I, 355; Pevsner 1966, 210; Morris, R. 1989, 161; Muir 1997, 96–7.

[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 10: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 629 (Romilly Allen collection).