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Object type: Part of grave-cover [1]
Measurements: L. 51.5 cm (20.25 in); W. 15 cm (5.9 in); D. 16 cm (6.25 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained, oolitic, pale brown (10YR 8/2–8/3) limestone; possibly Ancaster Freestone, Upper Lincolnshire Limestone, Middle Jurassic; from Lincolnshire
Plate numbers in printed volume: 169-170
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 74-75
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Only part of the top and one edge are visible.
A (top): A lightly modelled, plain edge moulding is grasped by a worn terminal head, somewhat tubular, of a transverse panel moulding or superimposed cross. The panel on one side of this has a broad, curving element, like the even broader one on the other side.
C (end): Plain.
The slab belongs to the York Metropolitan School series, and may be by the same hand as no. 39 (Ill. 165) and All Saints Pavement 1 (Ill. 201), judging by the plastic modelling and the trick of joining the mouldings at right angles.
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.
