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Object type: Part of round column
Measurements: H. 35 cm (13.8 in); Diam. 61 cm (24 in)
Stone type: Light olive-grey (5Y 5/2), poorly sorted, clast-supported, medium-grained, finely cross-bedded, quartz sandstone. Grain size varies from 0.3 to 0.9 mm, with a few up to 1.5 mm across, but dominantly between 0.5 and 0.7 mm. Clasts vary from sub-angular to sub-rounded. Helsby Sandstone Formation, Sherwood Sandstone Group, Triassic (C.R.B.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 634
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 317-318
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This piece comprises what appears to be a small section of a larger stone column. Chamfered at the top, there is no decoration.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
This piece has been regarded as Anglo-Saxon, initially by Kendrick (1941, 10), who saw it as the remains of a round-shafted cross. But there is no evidence to support this dating. It is possibly one section of a large stone column of indeterminate date, although that it was originally part of a Roman or medieval building component appears feasible.
