Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: Kirkby Malzeard 1, West Riding of Yorkshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Destroyed in a fire which damaged the church extensively in 1908.
Evidence for Discovery
Found buried beneath the foundations of the aisle walls of c. 1190, when these were taken down in 1878 (McCall 1909, 242).
Church Dedication
St Andrew
Present Condition
Now destroyed
Description

Collingwood's drawing of this hogback (1915a, fig. on 204) was made from a photograph still surviving in the Brotherton Library, Leeds University (Ill. 429). The drawing and photograph shows a hogback probably of type 1c, although there is no clear evidence of a recess. One bear's head is complete but no muzzle is apparent. The other end is damaged. There are three panels of interlace knots on the visible face, which Collingwood reports he was unable to make out satisfactorily. The right-hand panel in the photograph certainly appears much more damaged than in Collingwood's rendering. The effect of all three, however appears to be of close-packed interlace with no remaining ground.

Discussion

This is one of only two sites in west Yorkshire with hogbacks, the other being Burnsall, nos. 11–13 (p. 113, Ills. 127–38, though there was reputedly one at Lead — Appendix C, p. 290). Possible parallels are with Brompton, north Yorkshire, nos. 22–3 (Lang 2001, ills. 94–5, 97); and Sockburn, co. Durham, nos. 17–18 (Cramp 1984, pls. 143.761–2, 144.763–4).

Date
Early tenth century
References
Browne 1885–6, 124; Allen 1889, 230; McCall 1909, 242–3, fig. on 243; Collingwood 1912, 130; Collingwood 1915a, 203–4, 284, fig. on 204; Collingwood 1927, 169; Wall 1930, 51; Lang 1967, 92–3, fig. 23; Lang 1984, 88, 99, 142
Endnotes
None

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