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Object type: Fragment [1]
Measurements: H.28 cm (11 in); W. 33 cm (13 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Hartlepool and Roker dolomite
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 17.88
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 52-53
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Only one face is visible. Part of a florid plant-scroll inset in a wide flat frame. The scroll has long curling leaf-flowers with delicate incised markings and free pellets.
This piece is doubtfully Anglo-Saxon, but if it is, it is a strange exotic outlier in the north, reflecting the plant-scrolls of the Winchester school. Such leaf-flowers and free pellets are found for example in the Corpus Christi College Cambridge ms., no. 183, fol. 1v. However, the fragment is too small to provide a clue to the scroll organization and it could equally be a reflection of a much later style of the mid twelfth century, such as the font at Coleshill, Warwickshire (Zarnecki 1953, pl. 6).
