Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Sandwich 02, Kent 
Overview
Object type: Grave-marker
Measurements: H. 42 cm (16.5 in); W. 20.5 cm (8 in); D. 23 cm (9 in)
Stone type: Pale greyish-yellow, finely granular limestone, with moulds of shell fragments and (in a cored sample) the foraminifer Alveolina; Calcaire Grossier Formation, Palaeogene, Tertiary; Paris Basin [1]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 151-154
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 170-171
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Present Location
Royal Museum, Canterbury. Accession number RM 1142
Evidence for Discovery
See Sandwich no. 1.
Church Dedication
No Dedication
Present Condition
Broken and heavily worn
Description
Pillar of square section tapering irregularly to a rounded end. It is dressed flat above. The upper part of face A is occupied by a rectangular panel delimited by incised lines, a second incised line paralleling the edges below and to the right. On face B a pair of incised lines parallel the upper end of the left-hand edge. Their lower ends return part of the way across the face. Faces C and D are undecorated.
Discussion
See Sandwich, no. 1.
Date
Fifth to eighth century?
References
Wright 1845, 12, fig.; Haigh 1872, 164, 265; King 1876, 751 - 3; Stephens 1866 - 1901, i, xxvi, 363 - 7, fig. on 366; Stephens 1884, 113; Allen 1885b, 357; Allen 1889, 205; Stephens 1894, 37, no. 30; Browne 1899 - 1901, 169; Brown 1903 - 37, iii, 181 - 2; Shore 1906, 102, 186; Page 1908c, 341; Jessup 1930, 266; Dickins 1938, 83 - 4; Elliott 1959, 81; Evison 1960, 243; Page 1969, 31 - 2, 40; Marquardt 1961, 124 - 5; Tweddle 1983b, 30, pl. IXb; Tweddle 1986b, i, 38, 94 - 5, 124 - 6, ii, no. 125, iii, pl. 84
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