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Object type: Two fragments, probably from the same grave-cover
Measurements:
a: L. 38 cm (15 in) W. 28 cm (11 in) D. Built in
b: L. 31 cm (12.2 in) W. 27 cm (10.6 in) D. Built in
Stone type: Both pale yellowish grey (10YR 8/2) oolite grainstone, with ooliths and sub-rounded to ovoid ooliths and pellets around 0.4mm in diameter (range 0.3 to 0.5mm), and a few larger pellets and 3mm ostreid shell fragments. Ancaster Freestone, Upper Lincolnshire Limestone, Inferior Oolite Group
Plate numbers in printed volume: Fig. 9; Ills. 154–5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 154-155
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Stone 3a. A fragment which includes almost the whole of a panel decorated with interlace in low relief. The panel retains, on two sides, a cable-moulded border which has been trimmed off on the other two sides during reuse. Within the border the interlace forms a unit of motif ix (Fig. 10). The interlace has double incised medial lines.
Stone 3b. A fragment from a much larger stone which preserves an undecorated angle within which the panel is decorated with interlace in low relief. The interlace forms a simple pattern E knot and has a double incised medial line.
The stone type and the style of the interlace associate both fragments with a monument, or monuments, of the mid-Kesteven group of grave-covers (Chapter V). 3b is too small for certain identification, but it probably came from the side panel of a grave-cover from this group. 3a is, more certainly, a transverse panel from the lid of a mid-Kesteven cover and, although the two pieces would not have joined, it is presumed here that they came from the same original monument (reconstruction in Fig. 9). The present appearance of the two stones is somewhat different, but this can be accounted for by variations within the original block combined with differential weathering.
The mid-Kesteven group are dated to the period between the mid tenth and the early eleventh century.
