The Corpus: Oxted 02

Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Oxted 02, Sussex

Overview

Object type: Grave-cover

Measurements: L. 167 cm (65.7 in); W. 52 cm (20.5 in); D. 15 cm (5.9 in)

Stone type: Pale yellowish-grey (with a greenish tinge), medium-grained, finely glauconitic sandstone; Hythe Beds, Lower Greensand Group, Lower Cretaceous; vicinity of Limpsfield, Surrey

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 236

Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 193

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Present Location

See Oxted no. 1.

Evidence for Discovery

See Oxted no. 1.

Church Dedication

St Mary

Present Condition

Worn but complete

Description

It is rectangular and decorated with a relief Latin cross, the parallel-sided arms terminating on the edges of the stone.

Discussion

Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).

See Oxted no. 1.

Date

Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date in eleventh century

References

Leveson Gower 1893, 30 - 2, figs. A - B; Home 1904, 17; Tweddle 1986b, i, 90, 220, ii, 431, iii, pl. 70b

D.T.

Endnotes