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Object type: Part of baluster frieze
Measurements: H. 28.3 cm (11.1 in); W. 31 cm (12.25 in); D. 11.4 cm (4.5 in)
Stone type: Medium-/coarse-grained yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 101.542
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 119-120
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A (long): At the top chamfered back and roughly dressed. The cutting impinges on the marking-out line below and the smoothly finished concave moulding above the balusters. The baluster frieze is grounded on a narrow plinth, one under-side of which is dressed smoothly. It appears that there were groups marked with cap and base, then groups that were straight. Perhaps they were originally in threes but they now survive as 2:3:2. There are signs above the frieze of the use of a 3 mm point.
It is possible that this belongs to the same feature as the fragments of 26 and that the upper moulding has been recut. Its position when found-south of the churches and north of the domestic monastic buildings would enable it to have been part of the decoration of either group of buildings.
