Volume 7: South West England
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Current Display: Ramsbury 9, Wiltshire
Overview
Object type: Fragment [1]
Measurements: L. 11.5 cm (4.5 in); W. 6.5 cm (2.5 in); D. 5 cm (2 in)
Stone type: A much-worn fragment, of evenly graded oolitic limestone with a calcite matrix. Bath stone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 516
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 234
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Present Location
Built into the platform
Evidence for Discovery
None
Church Dedication
Holy Cross
Present Condition
Worn and damaged
Description
A (top): Possibly a piece of drapery in which four curving ridges are enclosed by a worn roll moulding.
B and C: Missing
D: Three straight parallel ridges
Discussion
This is a tantalising fragment of what could have been garment folds or even the hair of a figure, and if so, the only evidence for figural carving at this important centre.
Date
Pre-Conquest(?)
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Unpublished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.
