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Object type: Chair finial(?)
Measurements: Unobtainable
Stone type:
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 730-1
Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 264
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The only surviving photograph shows an animal head facing right, carved on one side only of a shaped stone. The animal has a round eye defined by an incised circle which is surrounded by a slightly raised circular moulding. Between the eye and mouth is a Y-shaped moulding defined by two incised lines. The mouth is represented as a deeply cut rectangle and the snub nose has a round nostril. There are uncut areas of stone above the brow and below the throat of the beast. The reverse side may have been squared towards the back.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
The purpose and date of this piece are alike uncertain. Given the seeming uncut stone above the head it is unlikely that the animal formed part of a hogback. If it is pre-Conquest, and there is little that is chronologically diagnostic about it, then its nearest regional comparator is Heysham 12 (Ills. 532–6).
