The Corpus: Crathorne 06

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Crathorne 06, Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Part of hogback [1][2]

Measurements: L. 195.6 cm (77 in) W. 34.2 cm (13.5 in); (ends) 29.2 and 27.9 cm (11.5 and 11 in) H. (ends) 33 and 30.5 cm (13 and 12 in); (crown) 40.6 cm (16 in)

Stone type: As Crathorne 2 (All Saints)

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 135–7

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 87

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Present Location

Monks' Dormitory, Durham cathedral, catalogue no. 51

Evidence for Discovery

See Crathorne 5 (All Saints)

Church Dedication

All Saints

Present Condition

Crisp; the top dressed off, cracked in two. Once served as a lintel, face C damaged

Description

A (long): At the top corners are remains of tegulae identical with those of no. 5. A roll moulding forms pronounced eaves, below which is a run of scroll and pellet in broad fleshy strand, tapering at each end. The carving is well modelled and densely packed. The scrolls have no leaves, and coil alternately above and below a regular undulating stem. Below the scrolls is a horizontal run of interlace in median-incised, modelled strand, with deep hole-points towards each end. It has medial terminations and elliptical free rings within the closed circuit. There are two major elements, both closed circuits, which interlock to the left of two free rings within the right-hand element. The circuits have elliptical terminations before locking with the adjacent element.

B and D (ends): Dressed.

C (long): As face A, but the lower surface has been dressed back to form a rebate.

Discussion

See Crathorne 4. A type h hogback, it is one of the best preserved of its kind. The tricks within the interlace are as clever as those on no. 4 (Lang 1984a, 104, fig. 10, k, l). It is very likely part of no. 5, and a pair with no. 4, which is by the same hand.

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, 306; Collingwood 1912, 115, 123; Collingwood 1915, 284; Collingwood 1927a, 164–5; Wall 1930, 51; Cramp 1965a, 8, no. 51; Lang 1967, 58–9, pls. XII, XIII; Morris, C. 1976a, 141; Bailey 1980, 98; Cramp 1984, 88; Lang 1984a, 101, 105, 126, no. 2, pl. on 127; Bailey and Cramp 1988, 29

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. 6: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 527 (Romilly Allen collection).