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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: The Burton StoneCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 5.354 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: York
Map Ref: SE5960252718
Latitude: 53.967112N Longitude: 1.092953W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Cross base with a central hole for a cross-shaft and 4 cup-like depressions in the upper face which suggest use in time of plague as a barter stone.
This cross base, which is no longer in situ, but enclosed by a wall, behind a railing, is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 56641 and Historic England List ID 1259198. Pastscape includes a photograph and tells us this is: "the remains of a stone cross, and a boundary stone of the liberties of York, was probably erected after the Dissolution when the old boundary … fell in ruins. Almost certainly it was used as a plague stone in 1603-4. It was moved, from the roadway where it had formerly stood, a few feet to the NE in 1821".
The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for The Burton Stone, Clifton, York, which includes a drawing, a description, and a list of reference sources for more information. The Journal adds: "the three holes (in the stone) became recepticals for vinegar. Coins were also placed in the vinegar solution as a way of sterilization and then handed out to families affected by the plague, or cholera epidemics, which struck the city of York from 1604 onwards. Local legend says that Mother Shipton (1488-1561) the Yorkshire prophetess rested beside the Burton Stone in 1512 – at which time she also married Toby Shipton of York."
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