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Object type: Fragment from a carved grave-cover
Measurements: L. 19.7 cm (7.7 in); W. 10.2 cm (4 in); D. 14.3 cm (5.6 in)
Stone type: Pale orange (10YR 8/2), sparry matrix supported, slightly shelly oolite with a few peloid grains. Hollow oolith grains common (0.2 to 1.0 mm). Peloids around 2–3 mm in size and shell debris 3–4 mm. Cleeve Cloud Member, Birdlip Limestone Formation, Inferior Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 299-300; Fig. 30B
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 213
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Fragment of decorated chamfered grave-cover. This small fragment is badly broken but it has nevertheless retained a good finish on the worked faces (faces A and B), the measurements of which are exactly comparable to Gloucester St Oswald 5 — namely the width of the decorated chamfer, the separating fillet and the undecorated vertical part of the side face.
A (broad): Only a small piece of curving stem (or the tip of a leaf) touching the dividing fillet survives of the main face of this fragment.
B (narrow): A two-strand scroll decorates the chamfered edge, ornamented with side shoots which curl back to lie over and under the main stems. The leaf forms on the side shoots are very similar to those on the chamfered-edge faces B and D of St Oswald 5.
See Gloucester St Oswald 5.
