Volume 8: Western Yorkshire
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Current Display: Thornhill 10, West Riding of Yorkshire
Overview
Object type: Fragment [1]
Measurements: (after Collingwood 1915a)H. 10 cm (4 in); W. 13.4 cm (5.25 in); D. 5.7 cm (2.25 in)
Stone type: Not recorded
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 764-5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 265
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Present Location
Not seen in 1996 or subsequent visits
Evidence for Discovery
Possibly the 'very small fragment' said by Haigh (1877, 416) to have come from the fifteenth-century foundations of the same wall as Thornhill 3.
Church Dedication
St Michael and All Angels
Present Condition
Unknown. It appears to have had carving on only one face.
Description
A tiny fragment with pattern A or C interlace loops.
Discussion
This was later reconstructed by Collingwood (1929, 33–4, fig. on 34) as part of the grave slab or shaft, Thornhill 1. The small scale of the pattern suggests it might rather be part of the head of a cross.
Date
Probably ninth century
References
Haigh 1877, 416, no. V; Allen 1891, 234, no. 10; Collingwood 1912, 131; Collingwood 1915a, 247, fig. i; Collingwood 1927, 17, fig. 24; Collingwood 1929, 33, 34, 36, fig. on 34, fig. i on 35
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Thornhill stones: (–––) 1876a; (–––) 1876b; Haigh 1877, 416, 419; Allen 1889, 213, 220, 221, 222; Allen 1890, 293, 297; Browne 1899–1901, 169; MacMichael 1906, 360, 365; Innocent 1910, 90; Morris 1911, 499; Collingwood 1915b, 334; Collingwood 1927, 23, 42, 109; Collingwood 1929, 22, 33, col. pl. facing 7; Collingwood 1932, 51, 53; Arntz 1938, 89; Pevsner 1959, 21, 503; Pevsner 1967, 21, 511; Page 1973, 29, 31, 34–5, 37, 48, 134–5, 217; Faull 1981, 218; Ryder 1991, 44; Ryder 1993, 174; Page 1995, 298; Page 1999, 29, 31, 34–5, 37, 130–1, 136, 228.
