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Object type: Fragment
Measurements: L. 25.5 cm (10 in); W. 14 cm (5.5 in); D. 30.5 > 28 cm (12 > 11 in)
Stone type: Unobtainable
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 471
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 224
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There are remains of carving on only one face, consisting of interlaced median-incised stems presumably from a plant-scroll with a single rounded side shoot. All other faces are broken off.
It is possible that this was part of a crosshead. It was in the same style as the other fragments of carving and seems to be part of the same monument. Although Goddard considered that the pieces belonged to different monuments (1899b, 231–2), in my opinion they are so closely similar that they are plausibly part of the same cross. The strand width, the deep median incisions and the side shoots with rounded tips are rather like Nunney, Somerset (Ill. 316), although there is no trace at Minety of the distinctive 'clips' which are found with other scrolls on more elaborate and more confidently carved monuments such as Todber, Dorset (Ills. 109, 112): see introduction pp. 51–4.
