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Object type: Part of grave-cover
Measurements:
L. 41.3 cm (16.2 in); W. 15.4 < 16.2 cm (6 < 6.4 in); D. unknown
W. (of cross arms and shaft) 3.3 cm (1.3 in); D. (of carving) 1 < 1.2 cm (0.4 < 0.5 in)
Stone type: Yellowish grey (5Y 7/2), poorly sorted, micritic shelly oolite. Ooliths in the range 0.3 to 0.6 mm form about 70% of the stone; most ooliths have weathered or fallen out to give an 'aero-chocolate' texture. Scattered, platy shell fragments up to 4 mm across form about 10% of the stone. Cleeve Cloud Member, Birdlip Limestone Formation, Inferior Oolite Group, Jurassic.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 478
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 263
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According to Eales (1928, 12), this piece 'was dug up under the middle gangway of the nave near the pillar in the restoration of 1899'. Eales' account is to be preferred to the statement by Daubeny (1921, 72) that it was found during restoration in 1878.
Part of a grave-cover with a cross in relief on the front. The stone has certainly been cut down on the right side (thus removing the end of the right-hand cross-arm) and probably at the top and bottom as well. The simple cross (type A1) has a slightly swelled shaft which rises from a rounded base 10.2 cm (4 in) wide. The cross gets shallower as it rises from the base. The remaining complete arm, 7 cm (2.8 in) long, is short and tapered, and also becomes shallower at its outer end.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
The cross is rather similar to those on the eleventh-century grave-covers from Oxted and Titsey in Surrey, and Stedham 2, Sussex (Tweddle et al. 1995, 192–4, 199–200, ills. 235–6, 239, 251–5), or South Kyme 2 and Winterton 1, Lincolnshire (Everson and Stocker 1999, 274, 291, ills. 388, 430).
