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Object type: Small, wedge-shaped head
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 272
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Small, wedge-shaped head, set centrally over the relieving arch above the lintel of the external north doorway to the nave. In poor condition; very weathered. Carved from oolitic limestone, now red as the result of burning. The head is twisted slightly to the figure's left, and the nose is all that remains of the facial features. There is some evidence of a pelleted crown across the forehead. This small head has been called a prokrossos, and it has been suggested that the doorway might be late Anglo-Saxon (MacKay 1963, 79; Taylor and Taylor 1965, ii, 672 n. 1). However, the scale and surviving features would be more in keeping with a carving of the head of Christ, perhaps from a crucifixion on a churchyard cross. As such this piece would be more likely to be late medieval, perhaps fourteenth- or even fifteenth-century in date.
