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Object type: Fragment of impost or abacus
Measurements: H. 11 > 3 cm (4.3 > 1.2 in); W. 23 > 7 cm (9.1 > 2.8 in); D. 23 > 3 cm (9.1 > 1.2 in)
Stone type: Yellowish-grey, medium-grained, shelly, oolitic limestone; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 556-557
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 290
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Part of two surfaces meeting at a right angle. The vertical face has a narrow bevel, 6 cm in width, on its lower edge, which stops against the more massive moulding of the other face. This has a deep continuous and slightly hollowed splay, 6 cm wide, angled at approximately 45 degrees, rising to a vertical face above which is an angular recess. The outline on the underside indicates a capital or column shaft c. 28 cm (11 in) in diameter.
There is a parallel in Jouarre, column 7 (de Maillé 1971, 163–4, fig. 52) which is regarded as seventh-century.
