Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Reculver 02, Kent 
Overview
Object type: Fragment of cross-shaft
Measurements: Unobtainable
Stone type: Unobtainable
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 122
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 161-162
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Present Location
Lost
Evidence for Discovery
Discovered during excavations at Reculver by Peers (Peers 1927b, 251)
Church Dedication
St Mary
Present Condition
Unknown
Description
A small, irregularly shaped fragment of a shaft of circular section, roughly broken behind, and to each side. On the surviving portion of the decorative face is a stem which curls down from the upper right to the lower left. From its upper edge develops a subsidiary stem curling round to touch the main stem once more, and ending in a single-lobed, pointed leaf, with its back resting on the main stem.
Discussion
The fact that this is part of a round shaft, allied with the precise nature of the decoration, makes it almost certain that it is a fragment of the same shaft as 1a–e. The comparison with the decoration of 1e is particularly striking.
Date
Early ninth century
References
Peers 1927b, 253, fig. 8; Jessup 1936, 184; Taylor and Taylor 1965 - 78, ii, 509; Taylor 1969, 227; Tweddle 1983b, 32; Backhouse et al. 1984, 40; Kozodoy 1986, 69, 78; Tweddle 1986b, i, 266, ii, 443 - 4, iii, fig. 42
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