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Object type: Fragment of stele [1]
Measurements: H. 26.8 cm (10.5 in); W. 19.2 cm (7.6 in); D. 16.2 cm (6.4 in)
Stone type: See no. 1
Plate numbers in printed volume: 52-55
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 60-61
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The shaft tapers and its only decoration is a plain single edge moulding, slightly rolled, which survives on only one side of faces B and D, as face C is broken away. The texture of faces A and B is rubbed smooth, but face D has vertical tooling.
See nos. 11–12. The face with less finished tooling could indicate that that side was not intended to be seen like the others, perhaps against a wall.
1. All the pieces from the Minster were discovered as a result of the excavations of 1966-71 by H. Ramm and D. Phillips. They are to be published as a handlist, together with a critical essay, in the forthcoming Royal Commission volume on the excavations. That publication will provide the finer detail of their archaeological contexts, both in a table, and in a description of the excavation of the south transept cemetery.
The following are general references to the stones: Wilson 1978, 142; Hall 1980b, 7, 21; Lang 1988b, 8, 12; Lang 1989, 5.
