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Object type: Architectural fragment including baluster shaft
Measurements: H. 19.4 cm (7.7 in); W. 34.5 cm (13.6 in); D. 15.5 cm (6.1 in)
Stone type: Good quality, well sorted fine-grained micaceous sandstone with well-rounded grains. Body colour light yellow brown (10YR 6/4), but has been patchily burnt to a light brown colour on some surfaces (7.5YR 6/4). Possibly the Lower Plompton Grit, Namurian, Upper Carboniferous of local origin. [J.S.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 16-21
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 91-2
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This fragment is from the base of an opening, either a door or arch, or possibly a window. It appears to show the base of an angle-shaft, carved in one piece with its base and engaged with the upright jamb. The base of the shaft is slightly bulbous, finished above with a single incised line which continues around the visible circumference. The shaft also seems to swell slightly as it rises above the base, but the shortness of the surviving piece makes this difficult to ascertain.
This piece should be compared to a late Anglo-Saxon west doorway with angle-shafts at Kirk Hammerton, also in the West Riding and not far from Bardsey (Taylor, H. M. and Taylor, J. 1965, I, 362, fig. 507). See Chap. IV, pp. 44–5.
