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Object type: Round-headed grave-marker with shaft, in two pieces [1]
Measurements: H. 89 cm (35 in); W. 46 > 38.5 cm (18.1 > 15.2 in); D. 8.5 cm (3.3 in)
Stone type: Sandstone pale yellow-buff, medium- to coarse-grained, quartz-cemented, with feldspar, sparse mica and white kaolinite pore-fills. Local Millstone Grit Group. [G.L.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 787-9
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 272
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The form of this monument is the same as Adel 1.
A (broad): This face has a deeply sunken circular centre, around which is a small compass-drawn incised circle. The outer edge of the plate-head is defined by a larger incised circle. Outside this circle, the edge is decorated with semi-circles at top and bottom and between them diagonal incised lines producing a pseudo-cabled effect. Between the two circles, compass-drawn semi-circles produce quite an effective pseudo-twist.
B and D (narrow) and E (top): Parts of the sides are missing. The top has three deeply incised grooves: the ridges between them are slightly rounded. The sides have a single groove. Because of the damage to the sides it is not clear at what level this decoration would have stopped.
C (broad): This looks like an unfinished version of face A, with incised innner and outer circles, and semi-circles in the area between them and at the top. At least seven compass points are still visible. On this face the centre has not been hollowed out.
Appendix A item (Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
See Adel 1. The difference between the two faces on this piece is interesting, since it shows how simple decoration can sometimes be distinguished from the merely crude and unfinished.
