The Corpus: Gloucester (Priory) 10

Volume 10: The West Midlands

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Current Display: Gloucester (Priory) 10, Gloucestershire

Overview

Object type: Fragment of a grave-cover

Measurements: L. 30 cm (11.8 in); W. 27.2 cm (10.7 in); D. 13.4 cm (5.3 in)

Stone type: Pale orange (10YR 8/2) sparry matrix supported oolite. Ooliths mainly hollow (0.2 to 1.0 mm. A little shell debris (2–3 mm). Cleeve Cloud Member, Birdlip Limestone Formation, Inferior Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic.

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 307

Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 215

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Present Location

Gloucester Museum 41/75 WKS 65; Bryant 1999, no. 36

Evidence for Discovery

Found in archaeological excavation 1975–83 reused in Period III, foundations of late tenth-century Wall 49.

Church Dedication

St Oswald

Present Condition

Good

Description

Fragment of plain chamfered slab broken into a triangular fragment.

Discussion

Gloucester St Oswald 10 is very similar to the fragments of St Oswald 9 but the geology is different. It must, therefore, be part of another grave-cover. (See also the discussion of St Oswald 9.)

Date

Early to mid tenth century

References

Bryant 1999, 164–8, no. 36, fig. 14.13

Endnotes