Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Overview
Present Location
Unknown
Evidence for Discovery
Church Dedication
St Mary
Present Condition
Unknown
Description

An early dial here discussed by Haigh (1879a) is described by Collingwood (1915a, 242), although it is not clear whether he had seen it himself, or was referring to Haigh's figure. He reported it as having rays for 6, 7, 8 and 9am, noon, and 3, 4, 5 and 6pm, but with no ornament.

Discussion

Appendix C (Lost stones for which no illustration has survived)

Haigh (1879a, 205) believed it to be a dial of the 'earliest Teutonic antiquity', and of the same type as the dial at Emley Moor (see above). But as Collingwood'said, it had in any case no ornament which would date it to the pre- Norman period. However, I could find no trace of it on my visit to the church.

Date
Undatable
References
Haigh 1879a, 135, 136, 198–9, 203, 205, fig. on 199, and pl. II; Collingwood 1912, 131; Collingwood 1915a, 242, 288; Mee 1941, 381; Faull 1981, 212, 215
Endnotes
None

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