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Object type: Grave-cover with effigy
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 298
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Grave-cover with effigy, clamped to the wall inside and to the west of south door of St Deinst's church, first noted in 1812. The stone is only 99 cm (39.9 in) long, and carries the tapering effigy of a child, dressed as an adult with a long tunic vertically ribbed across the chest. The neck is very broad, the face is round and the head is covered with tight curls of hair. Although the figure has been claimed to be wearing British clerical dress, this was identified by the Royal Commission as a fifteenth-century child's coffin and it is certainly not early medieval.
