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Object type: Shaft or architectural fragment
Measurements: L. 32 cm (12.5 in); H. 21.5 cm (8.25 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Yellowish-grey (10YR 8/3) detrital-shelly oolitic limestone, with a calcite matrix containing ooliths around 0.5mm in diameter and much shell debris including ostreid fragments. The exposed surface of the stone is presumably a bedding plane. Provenance uncertain; Taynton or, possibly, Bradford stone.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 523
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 238-9
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Only one face is visible. The shaft is edged with flat mouldings which enclose two wide crossingstrands about 3 cm wide, which form three medallions enclosing small flowers. There are other small flowers in the intersections.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
This piece, which could be architectural, has a hard mechanical quality, and detached flowers such as these seem rather more a post-Conquest feature. The probable tympanum from this site (Rodbourne Cheney 2) seems to be clearly post-Conquest and so this too could belong to a Romanesque church.
