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Object type: Architectural fragment
Measurements: L. 15 > 12 cm (6 > 4.75 in); W. The two carved faces are 7.5 cm (3 in) and 8 cm (3.25 in) wide; D. 10.5 cm (4 in)
Stone type: Yellowish grey (5Y 8/1), medium-grained, poorly sorted, clast supported, bioclastic, limestone with clasts varying between sub-angular and sub-rounded. Clasts vary from 0.4 to 5 mm, but mostly fall in the range 0.5 to 1.0 mm. Shells aligned sub-parallel to rounded-pellet ornament. Doulting stone, Upper Inferior Oolite Formation, Inferior Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 359-60
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 183-4
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The piece is slightly curving, and like Glastonbury 13 (above), face A is chamfered, so that the beaded edge set within narrow mouldings slopes in one direction, and the adjacent face with a five-petalled flower curves in the other.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
This may have been part of an impost or frieze: see discussion of Glastonbury 13.
