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Object type: Socket-stone [1]
Measurements: H. 75 cm (29.5 in); W. 179 cm (70 in); D. 158 cm (62 in); socket hole: 88 x 70 cm (34.5 x 27.5 in)
Stone type: Not examined
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 244-9
Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 121
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No decoration survives. The original form of the socket was not stepped.
The Lysons claimed that the socket 'exactly' fitted the surviving lower parts of Market Square 1 (Lysons 1810, 460, and fig. facing) but, since their reconstruction drawing depicts the adjoining parts of the present south and west faces of stone 1f as though they formed part of a complete face, their assertion must be suspect (see Hawkes 2002, fig. 1.5, and Sandbach (Market Square) 1 above). Nevertheless, given that the socket was certainly in its present position by 1810, and Smith recorded two crosses in the market place in 1585, it is likely that this stone is contemporary with the shaft now set in it.
