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An Anglo-Saxon Openwork Mount from Whitby Abbey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Günther Haseloff
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In a previous volume of this journal a piece of ornamental openwork in lead from excavations at Whitby Abbey was published as a medieval ventilator-screen of the type described by the Rev. Christopher Woodforde. These are likewise of lead and of obvious Gothic shape. The Whitby piece was accordingly dated to the late thirteenth century. A more detailed examination shows, however, that the Whitby openwork is neither Gothic in shape nor a ventilator-screen (pl. xixa).

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 3-4 , October 1950, pp. 170 - 174
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1950

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