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Object type: Fragment of cross-shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 10.5 cm (4.1 in); W. 8.2 cm (3.25 in); D. 6 cm (2.4 in)
Stone type: See no. 1
Plate numbers in printed volume: 107-110
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 67
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A and B: A roughly cut double edge moulding of a narrow outer and yet narrower inner strip survives on each of the two adjacent faces.
C and D: Broken away.
Such an austere fragment relates to the early stelae series from the Minster (nos. 11–19). There is no diagnostic ornament.
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.
