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Object type: Part of coped grave-cover
Measurements: L. 121 cm (48.4 in); W. 43 > 40 cm (17.2 > 16 in); H. c. 28 cm (11.2 in)
Stone type: Carnmenellis Granite (A.V.B.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 202-4
Corpus volume reference: Vol 11 p. 195
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Part of a grave-cover with approximately one third of the stone broken away. The form of the monument is type e but the proportions are of type g. The stone is boat-shaped, that is, wider in the middle than at the ends. All the faces are undecorated, the only ornament being the moulding on the ridge and gable ends. This superficially has the appearance of a cable-moulding but in reality it takes the form of a series of V-s incised over the angle. The gable ends are probably the same as the ridge but are now too worn to be certain.
The monument is plain and with few other parallels in Cornwall apart from the decorated grave-covers St Buryan 2, Lanivet 3 and St Tudy 1 (Ills. 33–5, 124–30, 229–33). This coped stone can be compared, however, with the plain house-shaped hogbacks with similarly boat-shaped plan at Lythe in north Yorkshire, dated to the tenth and eleventh centuries (Lang 2001, 166, ills. 582–5, 589–92). If relevant, this parallel may suggest Viking influence in the monument's design. However it can be compared more plausibly with a plain coped grave-cover at Whitby, assigned a possibly late eleventh-century date (Lang 2001, 289–90, ills. 1180–2) and to a monument of possibly fifteenth-century date with cable-mouldings along the angles at Badsworth in Yorkshire (Ryder 1991, 11), although the last two both have more regular trapezoidal plans. The decoration of V-s on the angles could also be compared to decoration on the Norman font at Blisland (Sedding, E. 1909, pl. VI A) as well as to a coped grave-cover at Newcastle, St Leonards in south Wales, considered by Redknap and Lewis to be of the eleventh or early twelfth century (Redknap and Lewis 2007, 488–91). On balance, an eleventh-century or early twelfth-century date is suggested for this stone also. The context of the monument is discussed above under Phillack 1.
