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Object type: Grave-cover
Measurements: L. 60 cm (23.5 in); W. 41.5 in (16.5 in); D. 12.5 cm (5 in)
Stone type: Brownish-grey (with a greenish tinge), medium-grained (0.3-mm quartz grains), glauconitic sandstone; Hythe Beds, Lower Greensand Group, Lower Cretaceous; Petersfield to Pulborough area
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 242
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 195
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The grave-cover expands slightly towards the head, which is slightly convex, and is roughly broken in two about half-way along its length.
A (top): Decorated with a Latin cross (type B6, with elongated upper arm), the upper arm of which expands and stops just short of the head. The lateral arms are parallel-sided and of slightly unequal length, the left-hand one stopping short of the edge, while the right-hand one runs off the edge.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
The decoration of this carving is more closely related to that of the series from Chithurst, Sussex (e.g. no. 5; Ill. 224), than to that of the other covers from this site. A comparable (eleventh-century) date seems likely.
