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Object type: Round-headed grave-marker, in two joining pieces [1]
Measurements: H. 30.5 cm (12 in); W. 21.6 cm (8.5 in); D. 5.1 cm (2 in)
Stone type: Fine-grained reddish yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 200.1125-1127
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 204-205
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Only one face is carved.
A (broad): The stone has a double-incised frame and a median-incised cross of type G1 with the roundels enclosing triquetra ornament. All four quadrants are inscribed, although the stone is so badly weathered as to make it uncertain even whether the script is in runes or Anglo-Saxon capitals:
(a) Upper quadrants: one complete illegible line.
(b) Lower quadrants:
[P . . ] II [UINI]
[na —] II
According to Okasha, Page tentatively read the upper line of the lower left quadrant as runic (þi..).
Despite its worn condition this was once quite an elegant carving. It belongs to the same group as 29, but could be typologically earlier.
