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Object type: Part of funerary slab
Measurements: H. 49 cm (19.3 in); W. 47 cm (18.5 in); D. unknown
Stone type: Greyish orange pink (5YR 7/2), poorly sorted, clast-supported quartz sandstone. The dominant quartz clasts vary from sub-angular to rounded,and range from 0.3 to 1 mm across, with a few grains up to 2.5 mm. The dominant grain size ranges from 0.4 to 0.7 mm. Millstone Grit Group, Carboniferous (C.R.B.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 475
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 258
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The only visible face of this piece is decorated by a ring-knot pattern comprising a central Maltese cross with closed-circuit ring touching each arm of the cross near the extremity of its arms. There are four diagonal loop designs extending from a central square motif.
Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
This piece is perhaps too precisely-cut and geometrical to be Anglo-Saxon and, although such designs can be found in a pre-Conquest context (hence Cox’s identification), it is highly likely to be part of a later medieval tomb slab. Ryder (2016, 71) includes it in his corpus of medieval cross-slabs in Derbyshire and dates it to the second half of the twelfth century, noting that it is rendered in a style similar to the post-Conquest sculptures at Bakewell.
