NHER 10353 (Monument record) - Medieval boundary stone or cross
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG30SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | LANGLEY WITH HARDLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
Cross Stone (Ordnance Survey not antiquity).
Square stone with bevelled edges about 1.2m (4 feet) appearing out of ground. There is no base. It is probably only a boundary stone.
R.R. Clarke's (NCM) addition No.3 to (S1) in NCM copy.
(S2) records legend that a woman in red sits on it on certain nights. Still in situ, overgrown and now only around 0.75m high. It is rectangular on end, not square (unless section is meant, but edges are large chamfers). Large horizontal chiselled groove on one face. It is of limestone, and could in fact well be part of the shaft of a cross.
E. Rose (NAU), 15 June 1984.
November 2012
(S2) does not appear to mention this cross. The correct reference for the legend of the red woman is not clear at present, although it is mentioned by a number of online sources and is clearly widely known.
P. Watkins (HES)
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF99172 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Langley with Hardley.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 30 SE 3.
- <S1> SNF1810 Article in Serial: Cozens-Hardy B. 1934. Norfolk Crosses. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXV Pt II pp 297-336. p 312.
- <S2> SNF1140 Article in Serial: Cozens-Hardy, B. 1961. Some Norfolk Halls. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXII pp 163-208.
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Record last edited
Nov 3 2016 9:02AM