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Object type: Claimed interlace around a socket
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 267-8
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Claimed interlace around a socket accompanying a rock-cut grave. Among the sockets in the western group of rock-cut graves at St Patrick's chapel was one which early antiquarians believed was surrounded by interlace (for the graves see Potter and Andrews 1994, figs. 18–19). This was first proposed by Browne (1887a, 4, pl. V, fig. 9; 1887b, 148). Independently, Brown (G. 1925, 188) and Edwards (B. 1977, 128; 1987d) convincingly argued — the latter by reference to illustrations dating to the early nineteenth century — that the 'carving' was actually keying for the base of a former wall.
