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Object type: Grave-cover [1][2]
Measurements: L. 186 cm (74 in) W. 48 > 46 cm (18.8 > 18.1 in); D. not known
Stone type: Pinkish grey (5YR 8/1), pebbly, poorly sorted, clast-supported, quartz sandstone. The sub-angular to sub-rounded clasts range from fine-grained (0.2 mm) to fine gravel (6 mm), but are mostly medium- to coarse-grained in the range 0.4 to 0.8 mm. Pebbly clasts scattered throughout. Ward's Stone Sandstone Formation, Millstone Grit, Carboniferous
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 524
Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 204
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The slab carries a full-length relief cross with a single step base; the head is of type A/D11.
Large recumbent slabs ornamented with crosses carved in relief are known from the eighth and ninth centuries in Northumbria (Cramp 1984, 7; Lang 2001, ill. 1044). No other surviving slab in northern England seems to carry a cross-head of form A/D11, though the type is known to the east of the Pennines both at a pre-Viking date at Lindisfarne and Norham, and among the Durham revival material of the early eleventh century (Cramp 1984, pls. 44.206, 45.209–10, 195.1101, 206.1186).
[1] The difficulties of distinguishing between the original provenances of sculpture from this site have been emphasised by recent excavations (Potter and Andrews 1994, 104, and fig. 2). The following list therefore combines material from both St Peter's church and St Patrick's chapel.
[2] The following are general references to the Heysham stones: Robson 1850, 28; Jackson 1889, 33; Allen 1894, 4, 8; Micklethwaite 1898, 348–9; Taylor, H. 1898, 42; Howarth 1899, 9, 21; Nicholson 1899, 21; Grafton 1904; Ditchfield 1909, 117; Grafton 1909; Farrer and Brownbill 1914, 110; (–––) 1923, 288; Curwen 1925, 30; Collingwood 1927a, 15; Hogarth 1934; Bu'lock 1972, 67; Fellows-Jensen 1985, 402, 405; Crosby 1998, 30; Higham, N. 2004a, 27; Blair 2005, 216, 218, 309, 376, 457; Salter 2005, 42; Newman, R. M. 2006, 103.
The following are unpublished manuscript references: BL Add. MS 37550, items 617–46, 735–6; BL Add. MS 37551, items 72–5; Lancaster Public Library, no. PT 7; Manchester Public Library, Hibbert Ware S. MSS: Msf 091 H21, V, 64 (no. 5), 82 (no. 1); vol. 8, 98v. For the Hibbert Ware collection see Henry and Trench-Jellicoe (2005, 239–60).
