The Corpus: Sandbach (Market Square) 5

Volume 9: Cheshire and Lancashire

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Current Display: Sandbach (Market Square) 5, Cheshire

Overview

Object type: Socket-stone [1]

Measurements: H. 75 cm (29.5 in); W. 133 cm (52.5 in); D. 93 cm (36.5 in); socket hole: 67 x 56 cm (26.5 x 22 in)

Stone type: Not examined

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 244-5, 273-6

Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 121-2

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Present Location

On platform in Sandbach Market Square, with shaft Sandbach 2 set into it

Evidence for Discovery

See Sandbach (Market Square) 4 above.

Church Dedication

Present Condition

Worn

Description

No decoration survives on the socket-stone.

Discussion

When first recorded by the Lysons (1810, 460), the lower part of Market Square 2 was still set into the socket. It is therefore presumably of the same date as that shaft.

Date

Early ninth century

References

See Sandbach (Market Square) 1 above.

Endnotes

[1] The following are unpublished manuscript references to the Sandbach Market Square stones: BL Add. MS 37547, items 713–23; BL Add. MS 5830, fols. 33v–35r; BL Add. MS 9461, fols. 122v–127r; Manchester Public Library, Hibbert Ware S. MSS: Msf 091 H21, vol. 6, 55–7.