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Object type: Grave-cover
Measurements: L. 186 cm (73.2 in); W. 51 cm (20 in); D. 15 cm (5.9 in)
Stone type: Pale greyish-brown (with a greenish tinge), medium-grained, glauconitic sandstone; Hythe Beds, Lower Greensand Group, Lower Cretaceous; vicinity of Limpsfield, Surrey
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 252
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 199
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Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Of the five grave-covers from this site all except Titsey no. 4 are decorated with relief Latin crosses. They clearly relate to the covers from Oxted (Ills. 235–6) and Tandridge (Ill. 231) which are similarly decorated. No. 4, with its bifurcating median ridge and cross-bar at the point of bifurcation, links these with examples from Stedham, Steyning, and Cocking, all in Sussex, where this type also occurs. As argued above, there is good archaeological evidence for placing these covers in the eleventh century, and perhaps as early as the middle of the century.
