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Object type: Round-headed grave-marker
Measurements: H. 29 cm (11.5 in); W. 35 > 31.5 cm (13.75 > 12.25 in); D. 5 cm (2 in), partly built in
Stone type: Fresh surface only exposed in two small areas, the rest covered with a cement-like coating. Yellowish grey (5Y 7/2), medium-grained, bioclastic, clast-supported limestone. The clasts are sub-rounded to rounded and mostly in the range 0.3 to 0.5 mm across. ?Doulting stone, Upper Inferior Oolite Formation, Inferior Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 88
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 108
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Only one face is visible. The round head is outlined by a heavy roll moulding and the face is bisected by a bold rounded A1 type cross.
Such simple grave-markers are impossible to date, and this type with the heavy mouldings finds no parallels in the region, although round-headed graves markers with simple low relief crosses were found in the cemetery at Shaftesbury Abbey (Ills. 92–4). It could be post-Conquest.
