Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)

Three-dimensional, openwork interlace block, now missing and probably destroyed. Found in 1869–70 when church was rebuilt, and kept for some time in a box in the rectory. Photographs and correspondence in British Museum file K64. The central 'stem' seems to be circular in cross-section and there is a circular socket in the flat base. The surface decoration consists of well-defined interlace, but the core of the 'arm' has been hollowed out and some of the spaces between the interlace strands have been pierced right through to the hollowed core. This strange fragment might be part of a gable cross or finial. The hollowed-out interlace is not unusual in Anglo-Saxon carvings in bone and ivory, but it is difficult to think of a parallel in Anglo-Saxon stone carving. The form is also unlike anything Anglo-Saxon, and this object is much more likely to be seventeenth or eighteenth century in date.