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Object type: Part of grave-slab
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 267
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Part of grave-slab. Browne (1887a, 11) in recording finds made in 1866, wrote: 'There are two very large flat stones, with a key on one of them, said to have been found under the bases of a Saxon arch; these, on investigation, prove to be parts of one stone, which must have been an early grave-slab of considerable dimensions'. Glynne (1893, 105), describing what appears to be the same slab, referred to 'a key at the head and a sword at the foot'. There is a large fragment of a grave-slab, with a central moulding running up the middle, in the display in the south aisle of the church which may be one part of this discovery. The presence of a key and sword suggests that the slab was of post-Conquest date (see Ryder 1985, 21–4; Butler 1987).
