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Object type: Fragment
Measurements: H. 19.5 cm (7.75 in); W. 14.5 > 9 cm (5.75 > 3.75 in); D. Built in, but about 2.5 cm projecting
Stone type: Limestone, oolitic, yellowish grey (10YR 8/ 2–3), with calcite matrix with the vacated sockets of ooliths of 0.3 to 0.5mm diameter. Bath stone, Chalfield Oolite Formation, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 520
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 237-8
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Only one face is visible. A curving moulding encloses deeply cut lobed features and a rounded lump.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
The curved moulding could indicate that this was part of a cross-arm, but although the rounded lump could be a head it is difficult to identify this as a possible 'Saxon crucifixion' as recorded in the church and S.M.R., and apparently accepted as possibly Anglo-Saxon by Pevsner. It is an odd piece and is perhaps so difficult to interpret because it is fragmentary. There are Norman features in the church and it could be post-Conquest.
