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Object type: Grave-Covers
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 324
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Grave-covers. Nos. 1 and 2 are set on the left and right in the floor of the porch. Nos. 3 and 4 were not seen by the present author, but were described by Leighton in 1882 as raised cross slabs (his numbers 1 and 3).[1]
No. 1 has inscribed circles which outline the position of cusping on the cross-arms and head, and a faint paler line betrays the position of the shaft. No other evidence for the cross itself survives, and this suggests that it could have been an applied brass. No. 2 has a ring-headed cross in low relief. This consists of four linked motifs (similar to fleur-de-lis) set within a simple circle. The shaft is incised and ends at the bottom in two circular terminals one above the other.
In 1882 Leighton suggested that these slabs could be eleventh or twelfth century, but the two cross-slabs in the porch seem to be rather later, probably thirteenth/fourteenth century, and it is likely that the other slabs are of similar date.
