SK 176464

Missing

There is no mention of the stone by Cox in his corpus of church buildings and monumental furnishings of Derbyshire (Cox 1879) but Browne records that two fragments were present in the church by 1886. One was discovered in 1885 and seems to have been Ashbourne 1; the other, a fragment of interlace only (Ashbourne 2), which Browne describes as having 'been known for some time' (Browne 1886, 181), was lost by the time Routh conducted his survey in 1937.

St Oswald

Lost

The record made by Browne in 1886 describes it as having a ‘bold and somewhat unusual interlacement’ (Browne 1886, 181-2), and although it was missing by 1937, Routh was able to determine (by means of a ‘lantern slide’ in the possession of the Derbyshire Archaeological Society), that it bore ‘interlacement’ formed by a two-strand cord similar to that on Ashbourne 1 (Routh 1937b, 5 n.1; see also Routh 1937a, 4 n.1). Earlier, in 1905, Le Blanc Smith (1905b, 100) had described it as ‘the smaller fragment’, and also as being decorated with ‘Stafford knots’, which he related in their layout to those on Norbury 1 (id. 1905b, 104–5).

Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived)

This was probably a fragment of an Anglo-Saxon shaft, although lack of recorded detail makes this uncertain.

Unknown

Allen and Browne 1885, 356; Browne 1886, 181–2; Cox 1903a, 39; Allen 1905, 280; Le Blanc Smith 1905b, 100, 104-5; Le Blanc Smith 1906, 229; Tudor 1927, 46; Tudor 1929, 59; Routh 1937a, 4 n.1; Routh 1937b, 5 n.1; Sidebottom 1994, 219