The Corpus: Crathorne 07

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Crathorne 07, Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

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

Measurements: L. 46.5 cm (18.3 in) W. (gable) 22 cm (8.7 in); (broken end) 22.2 cm (8.75 in) H. 28 cm (11 in)

Stone type: As Crathorne 1 (All Saints)

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 138–9

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 87-88

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Present Location

At west end of nave by blocked north door, supporting the recumbent effigy of a deacon, together with no. 8. This fragment lies to the west with face A uppermost.

Evidence for Discovery

See Crathorne 1 (All Saints). A photograph in vol. XIV of the Romilly Allen collection shows this stone lying loose with Crathorne 2 (All Saints) (BL Add. MS 37552, item 521); see Ill. 138.

Church Dedication

All Saints

Present Condition

One end of the top of a hogback; very fragmentary

Description

A (long): The stone has been dressed and the ridge broken away. Near the ridge scar the roof pitch is almost in a flat plane and bends sharply into almost vertical sides. The shoulder carries a three-cord plait, in closely woven strand, but most of the lower part has been recut.

B (end): The gable end has a roll moulding, and along the tapering edges at the top are faint traces of a possible two-cord twist.

C (long): Not visible.

D (end): Broken away.

Discussion

Too fragmentary for comment. Indeterminate type.

Date

Tenth century

References

Collingwood 1907, 306; Collingwood 1912, 123; Lang 1967, 62; Morris, C. 1976a, 141; Lang 1984a, 126, no. 4

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[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 7: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 521 (Romilly Allen collection).