This note is concerned with the Viking-age stone sculpture fragment currently built into the west wall of the south porch outside of the church of St Peter and Paul in Pickering. This fragment has been classified by volume three of the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture as belonging to a hogback of ‘type e, dragonesque […] a characteristic version for eastern Yorkshire’.1¹ Due to the stone fragment’s positioning on the corner of the porch, the beast’s head can be viewed from three sides. From what we can see, the beast is depicted with open jaws, bearing sharp pointed teeth that are evident on both sides of its head. The presence of a curled tongue, however, is only present on one side which currently faces outwards. The beast’s eyes are represented as two concentric circles on the top of its head with smaller ears positioned behind. The nose of the creature is encased within the brickwork of the building meaning no discernible features can be identified. The form of this beast is, so far, not unusual. The noteworthy non-symmetry is not an unknown feature of hogbacks; however, it is more prevalent in the west of England.2²

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Pickering Hogback片段，东约克郡

此注释与维京时代的石雕碎片有关，该碎片目前建在Pickering的St Peter and Paul教堂外的南门廊的西墙上。该片段已被分类由第三卷盎格鲁撒克逊石的语料库为属于“类型的电子一个霍格巴克，dragonesque [...]的特性版本东部Yorkshire'.1 ¹由于石头碎片位于门廊的一角，因此可以从三个侧面观察兽头。从我们可以看到，野兽被描绘成张开的下巴，在其头部的两侧都有明显的尖齿。然而，仅在当前面向外的一侧上存在卷曲的舌头。野兽的眼睛被表示为头部顶部的两个同心圆，后面有较小的耳朵。生物的鼻子被包裹在建筑物的砖砌内部，这意味着无法识别出明显的特征。到目前为止，这种野兽的形式并不罕见。值得注意的非对称性不是hogback的未知特征；但是，它是在England.2西部更普遍²