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18 (300) Third quarter of 19 (301) 10th century. Second half of 20 (302) Last quarter of 21 (303) 13 Recorded 10th century. 14 Recorded 10th century. Last quarter of the 9th century to first quarter 10th century. 22 (304) Uncertain Not 23 (305) First half of 10th century? 12 Recorded 11 Recorded noted Not noted 24 (306) 11th century. Not 25 (307) Second half of 26 (308) Not Present 27 (309) Not present 11th century. noted unspecified Not Recorded Not noted Uncertain reference 20 Recorded noted Recorded unspecified 6 Recorded 28 (310) - - - Hogback. Ridge and tops of beast’s heads removed. Three vertical panels of interlace. In three joining pieces in 1984 (Cramp). Now in four pieces. Hogback. Part only, from centre to one truncated end. Tegulations. Hogback. In two joining pieces. Almost complete, but one head missing. Dressed back on one side. Small reptilian head. Roof moulding. Hogback. Tableaux of Daniel in the lions’ den, or of Tyr and Fenrir (Knowles 1905, 116-117; Lang 1972). Missing the ridge. First mentioned in 1873 among stones lying at east end of chancel (Trans AASDN 1869- 79, II, i–ii). This could be the stone that Hodges (1894, 71) said had been taken to Matfen Hall. Possible architectural fragment with cable, pellet and interlace ornament. Could be of Anglian date (Wilson & Cramp 2003, ENGLISH HERITAGE Sockburn 4) Small fragment, possibly from a cross. Human foot and leg, possibly wearing a shoe. Small fragment of grave cover. Flat ridge of roof ornamented with band of diamonds in relief, contained within roll mouldings. Sides incised with V-shaped tegulations. Grave cover in two joining pieces. Slab divided by double-ended cross. Rings and zig-zag patterns. Noted by Boyle (1892, 659) lying in the east end of chancel. Plain patée cross head. Mentioned in VCH (Durham 1, 1905, 238) Not present in 1984 (Cramp, 156). Cross shaft fragment (27” x 18” x 7”) with ring-chain ornament mentioned in Knowles (1905, 116) and VCH (Durham 1,1905). Not present in 1984 (Cramp, 156) Written references to a hogback (Hodges 1894; Lang 1972) which may be same as the ‘Tyr’ stone (No. 21)
Figure 32. Cross-shaft fragment (Corpus No 3). No corpus No. Unspecified, but probably later 10th century. - - Bear’s head from hogback. Not part of other hogbacks on site. Found during consolidation of the west face of the chancel arch in 2005 (Ryder 2005; and see frontispiece image in this report) The sculptured stones in the Conyers Chapel represent 25 memorial stones - nine hogbacks, thirteen (or perhaps fourteen) crosses and two grave covers - and one architectural item, span the period from the late 9th century to the second half of the 11th century. Two further items - a plain patée cross head and a large shaft fragment with ring-chain ornament - were recorded around the turn of the last century (Corpus 26 & 27) but were no longer present by the time of the corpus research (Cramp 1984 part 1, 154). Morris (1976, 144), checking the contents of the chapel against theVCH list, thought that a fragment with ‘a dog and part of a human hand’ was missing.This VCH description is poor, however, and the stone is still present, listed as Corpus 13. One stone,a large hogback,was reported to have been taken to Matfen Hall in Northumberland by Sir Edward Blackett (Hodges 1894, 71). Hodges’ description of this stone (‘..sculptured with groups of figures on both sides, but is much injured by weather..’) sounds remarkably like the ‘Tyr’ hogback (Corpus 21;Figure 31 in this report). Brock made no mention of such an obvious stone when he recorded the memorials at Sockburn in 1888, although it appears in the lists compiled around the turn of the century (Knowles 1905; VCH Durham 1) so it seems probable that it was returned to Sockburn when the chapel was put in order (Lang cited in Morris 1976, 144). The Conyers Chapel also contains a number of memorials and architectural fragments from later periods. These are detailed in Appendix 2. ENGLISH HERITAGE Sockburn
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Summary In the early months of 2007
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