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Object type: Fragment of stele [1]
Measurements: H. 19.5 (7.7 in); W. 15 cm (6 in); D. 9.7 cm (3.8 in)
Stone type: See no. 1
Plate numbers in printed volume: 74-75, 78-79
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 62
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Tooling survives on only one face.
The edges to the finished face are lost, and there is a secondary hole with attached channel which intrudes on the lightly scratched, ruled grid on the surface.
The lightly incised parallel lines were perhaps intended as guide-lines for a painted inscription. Such guide-lines can be seen in the inscription on Bishophill Junior 5 (Ill. 234).
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.
