Volume 7: South West England
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Current Display: Ramsbury 8, Wiltshire
Overview
Object type: Small fragment of interlace [1]
Measurements: H. 18 cm (7 in); W. 15 cm (6 in); D. 5 cm (2 in)
Stone type: Oolitic limestone with closely-set ooliths of around 0.4mm diameter in a calcite matrix. Bath stone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 515
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 233-4
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Present Location
Built into the platform
Evidence for Discovery
None
Church Dedication
Holy Cross
Present Condition
Broken, worn and covered in plaster
Description
Only one carved side survives: it is edged with a flat-band moulding 2.5 cm (1 in) wide which encloses median-incised Stafford knots (simple pattern E) with drilled hole points.
Discussion
This does not seem to be part of any of the other pieces, since on no other piece is the interlace so close-meshed and with prominent hole-points, but it is too small to be diagnostic and could either be part of a cross-shaft or a grave-cover.
Date
Ninth / tenth century(?)
References
Unpublished
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Ramsbury stones: (––––) 1891; Baber 1891; Stewart 1891, 94; (––––) 1893–4, 120, and fig.; Browne 1894, 275; Goddard 1894, 49; Webb 1894, 90–1, and pl.; (––––) 1902a, 237, ill. on 239; Browne 1903, 155–8; Browne 1906, 247–9, pl. 3; Peers 1926, 53; Collingwood 1927, 183; Clapham 1930, 127, 129; Cottrill 1931, 29–30; Gardner 1951, 42; Stone 1955b, 37, 38; Pevsner 1963, 15, 332; Taylor 1963, 169; Taylor and Taylor 1963b, 249; Jope 1964, 99, 104; Taylor and Taylor 1965, II, 502–3; Pevsner and Cherry 1975, 17; Cramp 1978, 11; Ball 1979, 38; Cramp 1980, 7; Haslam 1980, 1; Tweddle 1983, 18; R.C.H.M.(E.) 1987, 12; Tweddle 1991a, 239, 242; Cramp 1992, 151, 155, 228, 264; Tweddle 1992, 1147; Hicks 1993, 205; Cramp 2001, 158; Croucher 2005, 2, 6–8, 43, 64, 73.
