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Object type: Fragment of grave-cover [1]
Measurements: L. 20.3 cm (8 in); W. 19 cm (7.5 in); D. (max.) 10.2 cm (4 in)
Stone type: Fine-grained red sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 151.793
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 154
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This fragment is of the upper portion of a coped grave-cover. The flat ridge of the 'roof' is ornamented with a band of diamonds in relief, contained within roll mouldings. The sides are incised with V-shaped tegulations.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Grave monuments such as this seem to have rested on a flat slab, which covered the grave itself, as at Whitby (pl. 263, 1424). They are obviously kindred monuments to hogbacks, showing as they do the tegulated roofs and, on this cover, the decorated ridge.
