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Object type: Beast head. Stone wrongly associated with pre-conquest period
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 191
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Beast head with hooked beak, part of a corbel set under the credence shelf in the chancel. This does seem, from consideration of the chevrons under the throat and the probability that it was a corbel, to fit most happily into a post-Conquest context. The church is partly 'Norman in substance' (Pevsner 1958a, 190), and this piece could have been part of the original decoration. The curling fronds in the jaws on the eastern face and the prominent oval eye could be seen as reminiscent of the wooden chair terminal (DW12), from Fishamble Street, Dublin, which Lang assigns to a West Viking later tenthcentury date (Lang 1988, 53–4, pl. V). There are however Scandinavian traits in some Romanesque artefacts.
Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period).
