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Object type: Shaft fragment [1] [2]
Measurements: L. 25.5 cm (10 in) W. c. 18.5 cm (7.3 in) D. Built in
Stone type: Medium-grained deltaic sandstone with sub-angular grains. This shaft fragment is very weathered so the rock colour is suspect (pale yellow, 2.5Y 7/4). Stone provenance as no. 1
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 49
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 69-70
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The edge mouldings are lost, but at one end is a transverse moulding flanking a panel of closed circuit plain plait in four stages in modelled strand.
This well cut piece is in the manner of the Allertonshire workshop, the plait being in well modelled strand and the pattern based on a grid.
[1]The following are general references to the Brompton stones: (—) 1867–8, lxxxviii; Rowe 1870, 240; (—) 1871–2, xxiv; Greenwell 1869–79a, lx; Rowe 1877, 61–4; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; Browne 1885–6, 124, 128; Saywell 1886, 481; Allen 1887, 126, 386, fig. 28; (—) 1890–5a, viii; Haverfield and Greenwell 1899, 125–6; Bulmer 1890, 389; Hodges 1894, 195; Morris, J. 1904, 32, 84–5, 420; Bogg 1908, 28–32, ills. on 29 and 32; Page, W. 1914, 430, 431; Morris, J. 1931, 33, 86, 87, 417; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 219–20, 245; Mee 1941, 41–2; Fisher 1959, 89; Pevsner 1966, 90, pl. 8; Bailey 1980, 85, 100, 240, 252, 255, 265; Kerr and Kerr 1982, 38–9 and ill.; Morris, R. 1983, 7; Cramp 1984, 11, 30, 93; Bailey and Cramp 1988, 54; Lang 1988a, 14, 24, 56; Cambridge 1989, 378; Richards 1991, 80, 119, 124, ill. 81; Everson and Stocker 1999, 138; Stocker 2000, 205–6.
[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 7: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 505 (Romilly Allen collection).
