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Object type: Part of round-headed grave-marker [1]
Measurements: H. 29.2 cm (11.5 in); W. 19 cm (7.5 in); D. 4.4 cm (1.75 in)
Stone type: Fine-grained red sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 200.1122-1124
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 203
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Only one face is carved.
A (broad): An incised frame outlines the shape of each quadrant between the cross-arms. In the two lower quadrants the frame is further elaborated by semicircular indentations in the outer corners. The double-outlined cross is type G1 with a base, type F1, and a circular centre enclosing a relief cross of type E6. Three of the quadrants are inscribed:
(a) Left upper, in runes:
— o]in[.] II
(b) Lower, in Anglo-Saxon capitals:
BEAN II N[AH]
II [P]AVS·I[L.]
The runic inscription may represent a form of the Old English masculine personal name Coina or Coena. Beanna is an Old English masculine personal name. The E is inscribed within the B. The significance of the remainder of the inscription is not clear.
This seems to be an example of that type of inscription in which two or more names occur, and it is uncertain whether different persons are commemorated, or whether both refer to the same person, who took a new name on entering the religious life. Several features seem to indicate a development from the type of 24: the relatively small and inconspicuous runic inscription and the elaborate `manuscript' flourishes of the Latin inscription; the complex frame and the bold simplified cross form with an elaborated relief centre (introduction, p. 7).
