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Object type: Grave-cover
Measurements: H. 171 cm (67.2 in); W. 63 > 24 cm (24.8 > 9.4 in); D. 16 cm (6.3 in)
Stone type: Greyish orange (10YR 7/4), slightly friable, fairly well sorted, fine to medium-grained (0.2 to 0.3 mm) sandstone. Grains dominantly quartz, sub-angular to sub-rounded with some well rounded. Feldspar making up perhaps 4% of grain content. Bedding parallel to slab faces. Bridgnorth Sandstone Formation, early Permian.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 541
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 305-6
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Sharply tapering grave-cover with a low relief cross. The arms and head of the cross are slightly wedge-shaped (a narrow-armed variant of type B6).
The carving of the cross on this grave-cover is very similar to several eleventh-century slabs from Oxted and Titsey in Surrey (Tweddle et al. 1995, 192–3, 199–200, ills. 236, 251–2), and the more regularly tapered grave-cover from Carlby in Lincolnshire (Everson and Stocker 1999, 126, no. 1, ill. 83). A similarly dated if rather more ornate example comes from Cross Canonby in Cumberland (Bailey and Cramp 1988, 89, no. 4, ills. 222–3). However, the rounded and tapered shape of the slab is similar to an incised tenth-century cover from Otley in western Yorkshire (Coatsworth 2008, 227, no. 13, ill. 617), and this might support a rather earlier date.
