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Object type: Fragment [1]
Measurements: H. 16 cm (6.25 in); W. 22 cm (8.9 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Coarse-grained, massive yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 185.1026
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 193
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Part only of one face is visible. Edged on the left by a straight and at the base by a curved flat-band moulding. This fragment contains three curlicues.
The cutting is deep, but the strands are heavy in comparison with the scale. Collingwood (1925, 70-2, fig. 5N) saw this as a window head and the curls as related to 32. He sees the work as late and coarse, similar to 33-9 and clearly it does belong to this group, which is not as late as the tenth to eleventh century. The fragment seems too small for a window head but it might have framed some smaller opening. I have elsewhere considered whether it could have been a cross-arm (Cramp 1974, 123). However, it seems too small in scale for this.
