A torso holding a shield in left hand, with the legs broken at the thigh, and the head missing. A mutilated effigy, which during a long period was placed, with the lower half buried in the ground, at the end of the village of Clifton, near York, by the side of the turnpike road leading to Easingwold. It is too much defaced to afford the slightest indication of the knight it was intended to represent. This figure used popularly to be called 'Mother Shipton's' stone, from the tradition that she was burnt to death by its side. The most likely original source for a knightly effigy is Saint Mary's Abbey rather than the Parish Churches of Clifton.