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Object type: Inscribed slab
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 298-9
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Inscribed slab, set internally in south wall of nave, first recorded in 1893–4. This plain tapering slab looks like a gravestone. The inscription is illegible. The orientation of the inscription is difficult to define because the stone tapers in both directions, but it probably ran lengthwise down the slab. There is a faint incised line running vertically across the stone immediately to the left of the inscription. Pevsner suggested that this inscription was probably Anglo-Saxon, but Elisabeth Okasha states: 'In my view this is certainly to be rejected as an Anglo-Saxon inscription on the grounds of its epigraphy' (pers. comm.). Indeed, the inscription seems to be little more than graffiti. It may be late medieval, but even this is uncertain.
