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Object type: Part of grave-marker
Measurements: H.71.1 cm (28 in); W. 28 cm (11 in); D. 17.8 cm (7 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 19.98-101
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 53
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This seems to be the lower part of a grave-marker. The ornament is in the upper section, the lower is uncarved and roughly dressed for insertion in the ground.
A (broad): An incised standing cross, type B6, is crudely framed in a wavering roll moulding. The cross has an incised roundel in the centre and incised squiggles in the quadrants.
B (narrow): A fragment of what might be intended for interlace with two grooved mouldings on one side, one on the other.
C (broad): An incised cross as on A but with a sunken centre and possible attempts at framed interlace panels in the spandrels.
D (narrow): May have been divided into panels. The grooved outlines of the patterns are difficult to elucidate but they could be panels of figures of the Gainford type (e.g. nos. 1 and 3).
This crude lop-sided carving, with no clearly defined ornament save the crosses, is either very late in the tradition or utterly incompetent. On the whole the latter seems the more likely. The technique has something in common with the Bothal carvings. Such work is impossible to date, but the taste for upright cruciform grave-markers is a late one.
