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Object type: Roman column converted into grave-marker
Measurements: H. 137 cm (54 in); W. 35 > 40 cm (11.375 > 15.75 in); D. 13 cm (5.1 in)
Stone type: Coarse-grained, massive yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 255.1389
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 247-248
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The column has been roughly cut away to leave a semicircular section. What was possibly conceived as the top of the recumbent monument is bisected by an irregular flat-band moulding, with what seems to have been a cross-bar now erased towards the top. The whole face of the stone is covered with a picked tooling.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
It is impossible to date such bizarre monuments, but in view of the reused Roman material elsewhere along the Tyne valley, it seems probable that this is pre-Conquest.
