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Object type: Small carved panel
Measurements: H. c.11.7 cm (4.6 in); W. c.16 cm (6.3 in); D. unobtainable
Stone type: Unknown but probably oolitic limestone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 456-8
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 257
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Small fragment of reused ?Roman stone
A: A fleshy, curling-tipped leaf grows from a semi-circular boss that is attached to the remains of the frame. The tip of the leaf is flanked by three concentric shapes like triple inverted commas.
C: The stepped, circular form of this face seems to be the remains of a Roman pewter mould, and the stone would, therefore, originally have been square in plan.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
This small, probably square, stone was reused for the carving on face A. The fleshy leaf and the triple comma shapes are very similar to elements of the designs seen on carvings from Bibury (no. 1, Ill. 27) and Somerford Keynes (no. 1, Ills. 426–7). The stone could have been used as the terminal block for a string-course or as part of a piece of furniture, but it is most similar to the square panels that form part of the decorated jamb of an opening in Britford church, Wiltshire (Cramp 2006, ills. 411–16, 421–3).
