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Condition: Good. Shallow inscription beginning to fade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Memorial No. Recorder: MS Type: Headstone Material: Sandstone Facing: East Dimensions (mm) Height 1370. Width 730. Thickness 125. Detail: Carved top edge – raised semi-circular centre, shoulders reduced by inverted curves. Inscription: ERECTED by an afflicted Father; to the memory of Two b[……][…..]ghters whose lives w[……………] hearts sincere [………………… ………………….] ……](a)in …..]one. …]inson Condition: Poor – leaning and the inscription is heavily eroded. Note: In 1827 Jack Hutchinson lost two daughters to consumption, Bessy and Jane, both in their 20s.They are buried at Sockburn close to their mother Jane and aunt Margaret.A tombstone was erected by their ‘afflicted Father’ (Barker 2000, 839). The final two lines of the inscription are visible towards the foot of the stone, but not legible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Memorial Recorder: MS Type: Chest tomb Material: Sandstone Oriented: long axis east-west, top slab inscription is read from the east end. Dimensions (mm) Height 960. Width 1040. Length 2100. Detail: Chest tomb with plain limestone ‘table top’ slab (chamfered edges) and limestone panels decorated with bosses. Classical pilasters at corners and mid-way along long axes Inscription: Here lies the Body of Sarah Hutchinson Daughter of Thomas Hutchinson [ ] Whitton Who died July 18 th 1786 in the […] Year of her Age Condition: Subsiding. Clear, but locally eroded inscription. Note: Surtees records the inscription as ‘…of Whitton, who died July the 18th, 1786, in the 76th year of her age’ (Surtees, R. 1823, 250). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Memorial No. Recorder: CW Type: Ledger Material: Limestone Oriented: long axis east-west, inscription is read from the east end. Dimensions (mm) Length 2000. Width 950. Thickness Unknown. Detail: Plain limestone ledger forming part of the floor of the nave/south aisle. Inscription: R ENGLISH HERITAGE Sockburn s
Condition: Eroded, surface flaked, cracked across short axis near centre. Note: A plan by A V Evans of c.1900, stored in the Conyers Chapel, gives the incription as J R 1788. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Memorial No. Recorder: CW Type: Ledger Material: Limestone Oriented: long axis east-west, inscription is read from the east end. Dimensions (mm) Length 1950. Width 950. Thickness Unknown. Detail: Plain limestone ledger forming part of the floor in the south aisle area Inscription: T: R ENGLISH HERITAGE Sockburn 7 Octo: 27: th 1795 Condition: Eroded, surface flaked. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Memorial No. Recorder: CW Type: Ledger Material: Limestone Oriented: long axis east-west, inscription is read from the east end. Dimensions (mm) Length 2050 (incomplete). Width 950. Thickness Unknown. Detail: Plain limestone ledger forming part of the floor of the south aisle area. Inscription: F R June 12 th 1800 Condition: Eroded, surface flaked. Cracked and foreshortened by a tree which formerly grew through the middle of the stone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Memorial No. Recorder: CW Type: Ledger (fragment) Material: Limestone Oriented: Unknown – aligned with and to the south of 26 Dimensions (mm) Length (remaining) 300. Width 625. Thickness Unknown. Detail: Partial limestone ledger forming part of the floor of the south aisle area. Inscription: E LIES THE [….] Condition: Eroded fragment, surface flaked. Note: Not shown on Evans’ c.1900 plan stored in the Conyers Chapel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fragment A Recorder: DW Type: Reused building stone Material: Sandstone Oriented: Positioned in line with stones 1 & 2 Dimensions (mm) Height 400. Width 450. Length 330 Detail: Sandstone block imitating gravestone Inscription (graffiti): D 1 Condition: Poor Note: Perhaps a replacement for a less permanent burial marker. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fragment B
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RESEARCH DEPARTMENT REPORT SERIES n
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The end-beast from a hogback grave
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List of illustrations Cover: Sockbu
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Summary In the early months of 2007
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Figure 2. Map of the Sockburn envir
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Figure 3. Sockburn Hall stands alon
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Figure 4. RCHME 1:2500 survey of th
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Figure 6. The ruined nave of All Sa
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The worm legend itself may be no mo
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Figure 7. Knowles’ (1905) plan of
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Figure 10. Extract from the 1840 ti
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three tofts, a mill, an orchard (or
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Figure 14. Sockburn Hall viewed fro
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Figure 17. Sockburn as mapped at 25
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Figure 19. Extract from the Sockbur
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Page 57 and 58: . Survey methodology The earthwork
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