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Object type: Grave-cover
Measurements: L. 142 cm (56 in); W. 45 > 35 cm (18 > 14 in); D. 20 cm (8 in)
Stone type: Pale red (5R 6/2), poorly sorted, clast-supported quartz sandstone. The sub-angular to rounded grains range from 0.4 to 1.5 mm across, with a few scattered feldspars up to 2 mm. Millstone Grit Group, Carboniferous (C.R.B.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 184–5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 173
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Slightly convex in plan, the stone is decorated on one face only.
A (broad): The decoration is contained by a thin edge moulding which crosses the bottom of the stone above the lower edge. It consists of a shaft, approximately 10 cm wide, lightly incised with a double outline, which runs most of the length of the cover. At the top of the shaft there are traces of the lower arm and one side arm of a cross, whose upper part is broken away. The shaft terminates at the base in a cup-shaped terminal filled by a double-stranded interlace knot in triquetra form.
B and D (long): Rough and undecorated
C and E (ends): Plain and possibly broken
An unusual design for a grave-cover which, with the exception of the base of the cross-shaft, resembles a post-Conquest tomb-cover dating to the eleventh or twelfth century, or perhaps later. However, the triquetra knot and the unusual cup-shaped terminal (compare Lincoln Cathedral 1: Everson and Stocker 1999, ill. 230) suggest that it is more likely to be pre-Conquest in origin.
