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The Repton Stone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Martin Biddle
Affiliation:
Christ Church, Oxford
Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle
Affiliation:
Oxford, England

Extract

In August 1979 a large sculptured stone was discovered, broken and upside down in a pit immediately outside the eastern window of the Anglo-Saxon crypt of the church of St Wystan at Repton in Derbyshire (pl. V). The scenes depicted on the two surviving faces of the stone are without direct parallel in Anglo-Saxon sculpture and have so far eluded definitive interpretation. The purpose of the present article is to place on record a detailed description of the stone, and some preliminary thoughts on its date and possible significance, in the hope that wider discussion may lead to a more satisfactory understanding of what must be, on any judgement, one of the more important surviving examples of pre-Conquest sculpture.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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