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Object type: Part of an opening
Measurements: H. 22 cm (8.5 in); W. 42 cm (16.5 in); D. 11 cm (4.25 in)
Stone type: Pale yellowish orange (10YR 8/6) shelly limestone. The shell clasts are in the range 0.5 to 5.0 mm across, but most are about 2 mm across. The clasts are sub-rounded to elongate (most common) and clastsupported. The yellow, ferruginous, matrix is fairly soft. Ham Hill Stone Member, Bridport Sand Formation, Lias Group
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 312-5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 173
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A (broad): The stone is plain, smoothly dressed, and two horseshoe-headed openings have been cut into the slab.
B (narrow): Broken
C (broad): As face A but a rougher surface, the more complete opening slightly splayed
D (narrow) and E (top): Smoothly finished with fine diagonal tooling
This could have been the head of a double opening in a tower such as St Benet's, Cambridge (Brown 1925, fig. 180), and as such would date late in the pre-Conquest period.
