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Object type: Grave-cover or decorated respond
Measurements: H. 22 cm (8.7 in); W. 27.3 cm (10.7 in); D. 8 cm (3.1 in)
Stone type: Weathered, very pale orange (10YR 8/2), matrix-supported, micritic, shelly oolite. Ooliths, forming some 30% of the stone, range from 0.4 to 1.0 mm; most ooliths have fallen or weathered out to give an 'aero-chocolate' texture. Elongate shell fragments up to 5 mm across form about 50% of the stone. Taynton stone? Taynton Limestone Formation, Great Oolite Group, Jurassic.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 87-8
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 151-2
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None. Noted by the Victoria County History (Elrington 1965, 57) and perhaps discovered during the restoration of 1866 (Verey and Brooks 1999, 200).
This small fragment is decorated with a design of interlaced circles, with all available interstices filled with pelleting. A vertical moulding divides the panel into two equal halves. The stone is bordered on both sides with a heavy twisted cord moulding that, in each case, is carried round onto the otherwise plain side face. The back cannot be seen.
This is probably part of a gravestone, although, as with Bibury 5 (p. 138, Ill. 40), it is also possible that this Broadwell stone could be part of the decorated respond from an arch or opening. The decorative scheme is very similar to Osmotherley 2, a tenth-century cross-shaft fragment from northern Yorkshire (Lang 2001, 190–1, ill. 722). In the Cirencester area of Gloucestershire, however, the Broadwell design is closely linked to a group of carved stones from Bibury and Somerford Keynes (pp. 134–8, 243–5, Ills. 27–40, 426–8) that are dated to the first half of the eleventh century.
