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Object type: Alleged small rectangular panel or 'pillow stone'
Measurements: Not recorded
Stone type: Not recorded
Plate numbers in printed volume: N/a
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 300
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Referring to a form of tombstone or grave-cover as 'small rectangular panels or "pillow stones" intended to be laid level with the ground at the head of an extended burial' and citing examples at Hartlepool, Glendalough and Monasterboice, Butler (1961, 14) notes: 'When they occur in the East Midlands, as at Crowle, it is difficult to be sure that such panels were memorials and did not merely provide decorative features in the churches'.
Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).
It is impossible to tell from Butler's passing reference whether he believed this to be an early monument, as at Hartlepool, or if he had any reasonable grounds to believe so. The reference occurs in his chapter on 'Anglo-Saxon Influences (800–1066)', but also discussed in the same context are small rectangular stones at Papplewick, Nottinghamshire, and Bakewell, Derbyshire, which include symbols of the deceased's occupation, and are presumably post-Conquest in date.
