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Collection Item: Grave Slab
Basic info
- Collection
- Archaeology
- Object name
- Grave slab
- Object category
- Anglo-Scandinavian
- Description
- Cable-edge moulding on front, cable-upper-edge moulding and two flat-edge moulding on left and right sides. Median-incised interlace on right side, and profiled human figure in the centre of the left side with two median-incised, knotted dragons. End has two fighting animals in profile and a squatting animal. Front has a dragon, a figure with hand to mouth in profile, a headless torso, a quadruped and a full frontal figure. The top and left side panel are thought to depict the Sigurd story.
- Production date start
- 901
- Production date end
- 1000
- Period
- Anglo-Scandinavian
Identification
- Object number
- YORYM : 1993.713
- Number of objects
- 1
- ID
- 697
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Stone (Whole)
- Gritstone (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Whole length 1,300.0 mm
- Whole depth 290.0 mm
- Whole width 475.0 mm
Find spot
- Method
- Archaeological excavation
- Place
- York
Production
- Technique
- Carved