Cox reported 'In S. porch base of Saxon shaft' (1912a, 127), before going on to describe what is clearly the grave-cover Kneesall 1 (above, p. 125) as a second item.

Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).

J. Charles Cox, sometime rector of Holdenby in Northamptonshire, was a capable, well-respected and much published antiquarian with wide experience. He travelled systematically in Nottinghamshire, visiting churches in connexion both with his contributions to the first Victoria County History volume (1910a, 1910b) and for his own guidebook to the county's churches (Cox 1912a); and he corresponded with Romilly Allen about Anglo-Saxon remains in Nottinghamshire (BL, Add. MS 37552, ff. 172–4, 219–20). His report that there was once a second Anglo-Saxon stone at Kneesall should therefore be taken seriously. His description of this stone as a 'base' distinguishes it from Kneesall 1, which he clearly believed to represent a 'shaft' (though, as argued above, p. 127, we now recognize it as a section of a mid-Kesteven grave-cover). Cox offers no clue, however, regarding what made him think that it was Anglo-Saxon in date; and the dimensions he offers are implausible for a base. It is odd that Cox did not mention this second stone when writing to Romilly Allen from Nottinghamshire in 1904, about 'coming across' Kneesall 1, and proposing a second discovery at Bilsthorpe (BL, Add. MS 37552, ff. 172–3). It is odd, too, that he is the only member of the group of interested Nottinghamshire antiquarians of the first two decades of the twentieth century who recorded its presence; and we must recognize the possibility that Cox's notes had become muddled.