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The Heysham hogback is, like other hogbacks, a grave-marker, monument or perhaps cenotaph, dating from the 10th century and probably from the period 920–950. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] The man it commemorates is thought to have been a high-status individual connected with the Hiberno-Norse communities of Cumbria or Yorkshire , and its position on the coast ...
The two rock-cut tombs south east of St Patrick's Chapel, Heysham. The six tombs of the western group are lined up in parallel with an east-west orientation. They vary in size, the largest being 2.03 metres (6 ft 8 in) in length, 0.51 metres (1 ft 8 in) in breadth, and 0.24 metres (9.4 in) in depth, while the smallest is 1.55 metres (5 ft 1 in) in length, 0.33 metres (1 ft 1 in) in breadth ...
Nave 1st half of the 12th C. Chancel in the 2nd half. Converted into a private house in the 1980s, it retains its simple layout, with two original windows in the nave north wall and a 14th-century east window. The 1795 brick tower was built on the foundations of a 14th-century stone tower which was taken down in the 17th century.
Heysham also has one of only three sites in Britain and Ireland that contain a pre-Roman labyrinth carving; the others are at Tintagel, Cornwall and Hollywood, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. [2] [3] Lancaster Museum holds artefacts from the area such as stone axe and hammer heads, some weighing up to 4 kg (9 lb), dating back to the New Stone Age.
In the churchyard is the rebuilt Anglo-Saxon sandstone archway moved from the church in the 19th century. It is listed Grade II, [ 9 ] as is the walling to the west of the archway. [ 10 ] Also listed Grade II is a sandstone sundial shaft dated 1696, [ 11 ] and a medieval sandstone coffin. [ 12 ]
A number of early Anglo-Saxon churches are based on a basilica with north and south porticus (projecting chambers) to give a cruciform plan. However cruciform plans for churches were used in other periods. Similarly, a chancel in the form of a rounded apse is often found in early Anglo-Saxon churches, but can be found in other periods as well.
Mom of three Holly Pardue struggled with excessive bleeding after the birth of her third child in January 2024. She was told it was just "stress and hormones" and advised to go for walks, but ...
A hogback in Dalserf Churchyard in South Lanarkshire, Scotland; the stone was found on the site in 1897. The patterned carvings are thought to represent wooden roof shingles. Hogbacks are stone carved Anglo-Scandinavian style sculptures from 10th- to 12th-century northern England and south-west Scotland. Singular hogbacks were found in Ireland ...