Transferred to new ownership, whereabouts unknown

This piece was brought to the attention of the author in 1994 by Dr Faith Cleverdon of Leek who provided a single photograph showing one face clearly and another in shadow. It was found in a stone wall by the occupiers of Roach House, Upper Hulme, near Leek. The stone was clearly of Anglo-Saxon origin and so was included in the list of visits by the Corpus authors. However, a subsequent visit to the site proved fruitless and the successive occupiers of the House have had no knowledge of its whereabouts. The stone is, therefore, now missing.

No dedication

Fragmentary but with decoration on at least two sides

The stone had decoration on one face comprising a line or key pattern, the panel truncated at the top and bottom. On the outside were edge mouldings which appear to be of the rolled or flat-band type. On the other visible face the decoration appears to form a squared plant-scroll design. The other two faces are not visible on the photograph.

The visible decoration on the stone is similar to that of Leek 6 where the same decorative panels are used on faces of the rectangular upper section of a round-shaft (Ills. 582, 585). Similarly, these two design elements appear at Brailsford in Derbyshire, another round-shaft (Ills. 129-30).

Tenth century

Unpublished