The Corpus: Crathorne 05a

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Crathorne 05a–b, Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Part of hogback in two fragments

Measurements: L. 182 cm (71.7 in) W. 32 cm (12.6 in) H. 35 > 24 cm (13.8 > 9.5 in)

Stone type: Medium-grained, well sorted, slightly feldspathic, deltaic sandstone. Brownish yellow (10YR 6/6). Stone provenance as Crathorne 1 (All Saints)

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 135–7

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 86-87

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Present Location

Reused as a lintel over south door; visible from both sides

Evidence for Discovery

None; apparently set in its present position when the nave was built in the fourteenth century, and left in situ during the 1887–8 restorations (see Bulmer 1890, 118).

Church Dedication

All Saints

Present Condition

The top lost; quite crisp

Description

A (long) : The ridge is noticeably curved, plain and flat-topped. Below it is a plain modelled moulding surmounting two rows of type 2b tegulae separated by another such moulding. Each tegula has a double outline on its diagonal edges, sometimes forming a triangle.

B and D (ends) : Broken away.

C (long) : As face A.

Discussion

See Crathorne no. 4. A type h hogback. Greenwell rightly assumed it was part of Crathorne no. 6.

Date

First half of tenth century

References

Bulmer 1890, 118; Boyle 1892, 342; (—) 1896–1905a, vii; Haverfield and Greenwell 1899, 115–16, no. LI, fig. on 115; (—) 1899–1900b, 250; Collingwood 1907, 276, 306; Collingwood 1912, 123; Collingwood 1915, 284; Wall 1930, 51; Cramp 1965a, 8, no. 51; Lang 1967, 57–8, pls. XII, XIII; Morris, C. 1976a, 141; Lang 1984a, 93, 101, 126, no. 1, pl. on 127

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Crathorne stones: Bulmer 1890, 118; Hodges 1894, 195; Allen 1895, 148; Morris, J. 1904, 420; Collingwood 1908, 120; Page, W. 1923, 236 fn, 237; Morris, J. 1931, 417; Morris, C. 1976a, 141; Brown, M. 1979, 41; Lang 1984a, 87.

[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 5: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, items 524–5 (Romilly Allen collection).