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Object type: Grave-marker
Measurements: H. 29.25 cm (11.5 in); W. 26.7 > 21.6 cm (10.5 > 8.5 in); D. 7.6 cm (3 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained red sandstone (St Bees sandstone)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 628–31
Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 165
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The stone is rectangular and broken at the base. Only one face is carved. The background has been roughly chiselled back to form a relief cross, type A1, in the centre.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Such crude grave-markers are almost impossible to date, and when it was first exhibited by H. D. Rawnsley in 1895, the freshness of the tool marks was considered to imply a recent date. Nevertheless, early excavated material can retain very clear tool marks, and the rough quarry dressing of the stone is not inconsistent with an early date.
(—) 1897, 4; Calverley 1899a, 111, pl. facing
