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Doncaster Museum, Yorkshire, West Riding

Location
(53°31′13″N, 1°7′36″W)
Doncaster Museum
SE 580 030
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Yorkshire, West Riding
now South Yorkshire
medieval York
now Sheffield
  • Rita Wood
24 August 2012

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Feature Sets
Description

Of the objects described here, items A, B and D to J were in the store at the Museum; item C was on display in 2012, but had previously been seen in store; item M was on display in the museum; items K and L were in store at Barnby Dun.

Features

Loose Sculpture

Comments/Opinions

The pieces of carved stone from Warmsworth which might be relevant to CRSBI (Hey and Magilton, 1983, figs. 9-12) were not seen by the fieldworker, although on p. 59 Hey and Magilton say they were in Doncaster Museum. See separate report for Warmsworth.

Item C is a decorated window-head. Another, but much damaged, decorated window-head is preserved at Swillington; that seems to have had chevron or an incised saltire star pattern. Isolated examples occur elsewhere, as at Kirby Sigston, N Riding, and Aldborough, E Riding. The window-heads with dentation at Adel (W) and Fangfoss (E) are probably later, possibly dating from the 1140s.

Item B: Slab with line of incised Xs, DT finds no. 16. Martin Henig believes that the stone does not look Roman and would not class it as sculpture. He suspects it is medieval [communication by email]. On the other hand, some Roman milestones have Xs like this stone.

Item M: top of standing cross. Lawrence Butler thinks this is from a standing cross, and is not an architectural finial.

Bibliography

D. Hey and J. R. Magilton, 'St Peter's church, Warmsworth' Yorshire Archaeological Journal, 55 (1983) 27-58

P. F. Ryder, Lapidiary material from the 1983 Hickleton Church Excavation, 1983, revised 2011. Unpublished.