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Object type: Grave-cover
Measurements: L. 170 cm (67 in); W. 45 > 33 cm (17.7 > 13 in); D. 20 > 13 cm (7.8 > 5.1 in)
Stone type: Greyish pink (5R 6/2), moderately sorted, clast-supported quartz sandstone. The sub-angular to sub-rounded grains range from 0.2 to 0.4 mm across, but are dominantly medium grained (0.3 mm); a few scattered clasts of white mica. Helsby Sandstone Formation, Sherwood Sandstone Group, Triassic (C.R.B.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 464–5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 255
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Grave-cover, tapering in width and thickness towards the foot-end. Decorated with a pattern of chevrons set to either side of a conjoined pair of sub-rectangular ‘squares’ each outlined by four grooves which continue up and down the slab as simple chevrons.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
Lawrence Butler, commenting on a drawing of Repton 29 (letter to M.B., 13 March 1976) did wonder if the piece could be ‘pre-Conquest’, but earlier (letter to M.B., 12 September 1975) felt that it ‘should be late 11th century’, noting that no monuments with ‘this pattern have been found any nearer than Wood Walton in the East Anglian group and Birstall in the south Yorkshire group’, and querying whether this was ‘a local red sandstone or a Jurassic Limestone’. A similar slab, but shorter with only one ‘square’ flanked by chevrons, is recorded at Whaplode, Lincolnshire (Butler 1964, 119-20, fig. 2A; Everson and Stocker 1999, 271, fig. 30, ill. 386).
