stones that echo down the ages

The relic, which was found in 2008, is the latest in a string of significant discoveries in the area.

Most of the stones were discovered in the 1850s and 1860s but the last century also produced a find in 1985 by a pupil from South Craven School.

“One pupil spotted this round stone with a carving on it in the river bank,” said Mr Townend. ”That turned out to be a cross head of a similar era. I am sure there are more.”

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St Wilfrid’s collection of stone sculptures consists of Viking tombstones and fragments of Anglo-Scandinavian crosses dating from the ninth to the eleventh centuries.

Many were discovered under the floor of the historic church in the nineteenth century.

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