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Object type: Small column in two joining pieces
Measurements: H. 33 > 8 cm (13 > 3.1 in); W. 12 > 7.5 cm (4.7 > 3 in); D. 12 > 7.5 cm (4.7 > 3 in)
Stone type: Pale yellowish-grey, very porous, shell-fragment limestone; Quarr stone, Bembridge Formation, Palaeogene, Tertiary; Isle of Wight
Plate numbers in printed volume: Fig. 40; Ills. 719-22
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 339-440
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The column is slightly flattened in section (diameter, 7.8–8 cm). Base and capital are rectangular and precisely tooled to a smooth surface. There is vertical tooling on the column, but diagonal and horizontal tooling on the capital and base. The faces of the capital are concave and decorated with two raised bands of semicircular section, giving the impression of four horizontal bands of reeding. Its underside (Ill. 722) has a raised triangle pointing outwards to each corner. The base is plain apart from a shallow semicircular incision on one of the narrower sides. On one of the wider sides of the base the central area shows the faint outline of a tall round-topped outline, the interior of which is filled with whitewash.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
This could be a Saxo-Norman piece, for the tooling is more diagonal and detailed than on the other Anglo-Saxon worked stones.
