Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire
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Current Display: Brompton in Allertonshire 18, Yorkshire North Riding
Overview
Object type: Hogback fragment [1]
Measurements: L. 59.7 cm (23.5 in) W. (beast) 22.2 cm (8.75 in); (crown) 23.5 cm (9.25 in) H. 43.2 cm (17 in)
Stone type: Fine-grained deltaic sandstone very much as no. 9, except that the colour could not be determined as stone was so dirty.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 84–5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 75
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Present Location
Against the north wall of the nave within the church
Evidence for Discovery
See Brompton In Allertonshire 1 (St Thomas)
Church Dedication
St Thomas
Present Condition
Central fragment of a hogback with the foreleg of an end-beast; broken but little weathered
Description
The roof ridge carries a ring-twist strip between plain mouldings.
A (long) : Only the five-toed paw and foreleg of an end-beast survive. The bombé roof pitch has three rows of type 1 tegulae, below which is a cable moulding at eaves level above the remains of three vertical panels of closed circuit plain plait separated by broad flat mouldings, their lines lightly traced.
C (long) : As face A, with two surviving panels, but the tegulation is more crudely carved.
Discussion
This is almost identical with no. 17, though the slip in quality on face C might suggest that this faced inwards in a paired grouping, like the 'Giant's Grave' at Penrith (Bailey and Cramp 1988, ills. 494–5), or that it was a trial for no. 17. It is a type a (panel) hogback.
Date
First half of tenth century
References
Collingwood 1907, 276, 300; Collingwood 1912, 123; Page, W. 1914, 431; Collingwood 1927a, 168; Lang 1967, 34; Lang 1984a, 99, 109, 118, no. 3, pl. on 119; Lang 1991, 208
Endnotes
[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.
