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Object type: Four fragments, possibly from the same grave-cover
Measurements:
a: L. c. 25 cm (9.8 in) W. c. 10 cm (3.9 in) D. Built in
b: L. 29 cm (11.4 in) W. 13 cm (5.1 in) D. Built in
c: L. 26 cm (10.3 in) W. 25 cm (9.8 in) D. Built in
d: L. 29 cm (11.4 in) W. 11 cm (4.3 in) D. Built in
Stone type: All light grey (10YR 8/1) oolite grainstone. Ancaster Freestone, Upper Lincolnshire Limestone, Inferior Oolite Group
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 139–42
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 145
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Stones 10a and 10b. Two fragments of interlace now represented only by the pattern of holes representing the original interstices. It is not possible to judge what patterns are represented, but 10b preserves indications of an angle moulding of uncertain type.
Stone 10c. A fragment decorated with interlace, originally in low relief. The only visible decorated surface of the stone is greatly abraded and shows a double line of drill-holes which probably represent a run of three-strand plait. At one end a curving incision probably represents the end of the run within this fragment.
Stone 10d. A fragment decorated with interlace in low relief. The visible border of the interlace panel is undecorated and of rectangular section. The interlace itself is a simple three-strand plait.
These four fragments appear to be of similar stone, from the Ancaster group of quarries, and they seem to have had similar interlace. It is therefore suggested, provisionally, that they may have come from the same original monument. The stone type is that used in the mid-Kesteven group of covers (Chapter V). What can be understood of the interlace patterns would not be inconsistent with a single cover of this group, and thus it is possible that any of these fragments may have been part of one of the other known fragmentary mid-Kesteven group covers from Creeton (nos. 8 and 9 above). If these fragments are indeed from a mid-Kesteven cover then a date in the period between the mid tenth century and the early eleventh is probably indicated.