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Object type: Grave-marker
Measurements: H. 26 cm (10.25 in); W. 23 > 21 cm (9 > 8.25 in); D. 10 > 4.5 cm (4 > 1.75 in)
Stone type: Oolite, even-grained, as Potterne no. 1. Bath stone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 521-2
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 238
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This small rectangular slab tapers in depth from the bottom to the top, and the shape is rather carelessly cut. Only one face is carved.
A (broad): A cross in deep relief extends to the edges of the stone. In form it is of A1 type and there is an indistinct hillock-like base.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Such simple markers are difficult to date since the type had a long life. This one may have had the pretension to be a Calvary if one interprets the carving at the base as a hill. Otherwise the simple cross and roughly shaped plain slab are comparable with grave-markers from Chithurst or Stedham, Sussex (Tweddle et al. 1995, ills. 224, 227, 242). All are probably eleventh-century.
