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York,
St Mary Castlegate
Dedication stone
11th century
Incomplete
millstone grit slab inscribed in a mixture of Anglo-Saxon and Latin.
Modern English translation:
'-frard and Grim and Aese raised (this) church in the name of the
Holy Lord Christ, and St Mary and St Martin and St Cuthbert and All
Saints. It was consecrated in the
year in the life of - '
Dimensions: L.520, W.394, T.152mm
Bibliography
:
Royal
Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1981. Inventory of
the Historical Monuments in the City of York 5: The Central Area
(London, HMSO), 33
Okasha, E., 1971. A Hand List of Anglo-Saxon Non-Runic Inscriptions
(Cambridge), 131
Location
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Church of St Mary, Castlegate
(Photo:S.I.
Hill, © York Archaeological Trust)
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