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Object type: Incomplete grave-marker [1]
Measurements: H. 41.5 cm (16.3 in); W. 26 cm (10.2 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Sandstone, pale orange-brown with reddened patches, fine to medium grained with ferruginous liesegang banding in the stone. Upper Carboniferous, local sandstone from the Pennine Middle or Lower Coal Measures groups. [G.L.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 830
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 283
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This appears to be a slab with an incised circle in which is a cross with a sunken circle at the centre, of type E6/8, with arms which do not reach the edge of the inscribed circle. A plain area survives below the cross.
Appendix A item (Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
The slab-like format differentiates this from others in the group, but the overall argument that this is a group of 'overlap' period monuments still holds. See Tankersley 1 and High Melton 3.
