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Object type: Cross-decorated slab
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 268
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Cross-decorated slab. Loose on window sill; no record of discovery. The slab is broken and worn on the right side, the lower part lost. The cross-shaft is represented by a moulding which terminates in a cross-head with wedge-shaped upper and lower arms; the small transverse arms are represented by V-shaped extensions. There are faint traces of a sword to the right of the shaft. Though a pre-Norman date has been suggested for this piece, the shadowy presence of a sword suggests that it belongs to the twelfth or thirteenth century.
