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Object type: Grave-marker / head or footstone
Measurements: H. 29 cm (11.5 in); W. 26.5 cm (10.5 in); D. 10 cm (4 in)
Stone type: As Shaftesbury (Abbey) 2
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 94
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 110
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This grave-marker is almost round, and only one face is carved with a relief cross in which the upright arm is straight and the cross-arms wedge shaped, as in Shaftesbury (Abbey) 2 and 3.
Despite the difference in shape of this slab, since the cross form is very similar to Shaftesbury 2 it must be from the same workshop. This, from the identity of the stone type, is local and may have been at the abbey itself.
