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Object type: Fragment of cross-shaft
Measurements: L. 52 cm (20.5 in) W. 34 cm (13.4 in) D. 18 cm (7.1 in)
Stone type: Yellowish grey (10YR 8/1–2) shelly oolitic limestone, with planar more shelly bands weathering out as ribs; the stone surface is a calcite honeycomb of vacated 0.3 to 0.5mm oolith sockets in the less shelly bands. Barnack Rag type, Upper Lincolnshire Limestone, Inferior Oolite Group
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 122
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 141
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A fragment from the middle of a large shaft decorated with interlace. One decorated face is visible which has an undecorated border of rectangular section defining a central area, within which appears an interlace grid, most of which is only visible as a regular pattern of depressions, as so much of the surface is missing.
This fragment probably came from a large shaft decorated with a grid of interlace. The Barnack stone type would associate the original shaft with the South Kesteven group (Chapter V) and, from what can seen, the shaft probably has the correct proportions (i.e. a ratio of width of front and back to sides of approximately 2:1), and it has the same undecorated border of rectangular section shown by the better preserved members of the group. If this is a member of the South Kesteven shaft group, however, it would be the only surviving example, other than Stoke Rochford 1 (Ills. 346–9), which has grids of interlace. The better preserved members of the group suggest that these pieces should be dated to the later tenth or the eleventh centuries.
