Volume 7: South West England
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Current Display: Sherston 1, Wiltshire 
Overview
Object type: Figure carving
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Plate numbers in printed volume:
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 241
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Present Location
Evidence for Discovery
Church Dedication
Holy Cross
Present Condition
Description
Discussion
Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period).
Figure carving in church noted by John Aubrey c.1670, 'which they call "Rattle Bone"'. Probably Norman (Pevsner) but Aubrey and Jackson thought it Saxon: he 'did much service against the Danes'.
Date
References
Jackson 1862, 107, pl. X, no. 169; Ponting 1901, 350–1, pl. facing 350; Pevsner 1963, 422; Pevsner and Cherry 1975, 469; Aubrey 1982, 816, 817
Endnotes
None
