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Object type: Cross-shaft
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 289
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Appendix B item (Stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Thrybergh 1 is an incomplete cross-shaft in the churchyard to the south-east of the church: this previously stood at the east end of the village in a small cemetery (Ryder 1982, 120). The shaft has some ornament details in common with Barnburgh 2 (p. 286), and like it, shows some interesting connections with pre-Conquest sculpture: in the crossing scroll and the ring twist, for example, and perhaps also in the position of the half figure within a panel low on the shaft.
Thrybergh 2 stands on the pavement in a modern development east of the church, but is said to have once stood on the village green. The west face has a stem, probably of a cross, from which spring acanthus-like leaves; the east face an incised sword. The chamfered angles are ornamented with heavy bosses.
Brown (1937, 145) included both in the same group of monuments he considered 'Saxonic' (see Barnburgh and Rawmarsh) but like the rest they are clearly twelfth-century Romanesque, with backward-looking elements.
