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Object type: Incomplete grave-cover
Measurements: L. 141.6 cm (55.6 in); W. 52 > 38.8 cm (20.4 > 15.2 in); D. 13.6 > 10.8 cm (5.3 > 4.2 in)
Stone type: Very pale orange (10YR 8/2) Grain supported micritic oolite. Ooliths 0.2 to 0.3 mm. Sparse shell debris. Possibly Taynton Limestone Formation, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 306
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 214-5
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Plain chamfered tapering grave-slab in four joining pieces. The top stone in the photograph should be turned through 180 degrees to fit on the top right rather than top left.
Gloucester St Oswald 9 is another grave-cover, broken into four pieces, tapered and chamfered, but plain. The contrast with the decorated pieces is very marked but this may not have been so originally; it is quite possible that this grave-cover received elaborate painted decoration, although no evidence of this remained. In earlier discussion (Bryant 1999) it was suggested that St Oswald 10 might also belong to this grave-cover, but no. 10 comes from a different limestone bed. Unlike the grave-cover represented by Gloucester St Oswald 5 which was probably carved from at least two slabs, St Owald 9 seems to have been cut from a single stone and St Oswald 10 must, therefore, be part of a separate grave-cover.
