Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire
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Current Display: Brompton in Allertonshire 25, Yorkshire North Riding
Overview
Object type: Hogback [1]
Measurements: L. 113 cm (44.5 in) W. 27.9 cm (11 in) H. (end) 36.8 cm (14.5 in); (crown) 33 cm (13 in)
Stone type: As Brompton In Allertonshire 3 (St Thomas)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 104–6
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 78
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Present Location
Monks' Dormitory, Durham cathedral, catalogue no. 62
Evidence for Discovery
See Brompton In Allertonshire 4 (St Thomas)
Church Dedication
St Thomas
Present Condition
A hogback with part of one end-beast lost; worn
Description
The ridge issues from the end-beast's jowl; it has traces of chevron pattern that might have been a double cable.
A (long) : The centre of the side is filled by a bold ring-knot consisting of a twin-link (closed circuit pattern B) locked in a circle. Of one end-beast only the forelegs remain; its twin is bear-like, though very worn. The nostrils are drilled and the jaws are shown by a slit. There are traces of a muzzle. The paws have five toes and extend far into the centre where they touch the ridge. The section of the stone is steeply pointed and off-centre.
C (long) : As face A, but badly damaged.
Discussion
Modelled on the panel type hogback (type a), this monument is unique in its use of a solitary ring-knot of this form. It is a simplified version of interlace and one suspects the law of minimum effort in operation (Lang 1984a, 106).
Date
First half of tenth century
References
Haverfield and Greenwell 1899, 124–5, no. LXII, fig. on 124; Collingwood 1907, 276, 300; Collingwood 1912, 123; Cramp 1965a, 8, no. 62; Lang 1967, 47–8, fig. 12, pl. IX; Lang 1984a, 124, no. 10, pl. on 125
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.
