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Object type: Part of grave-cover
Measurements: L. 66 cm (26 in) W. 77 > 63 cm (30.25 > 24.75 in) D. Built in
Stone type: [Barnack Rag type, Upper Lincolnshire Limestone, Inferior Oolite Group]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 400
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 278
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A (top): The head end of a tapering, slightly coped grave-cover simply decorated with thin raised ridge shaft and a single short cross-arm of type A1.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Butler (1961, 40) identifies a category of Barnack covers decorated in this simple way. Of five examples that he lists, four are in Lincolnshire – Friskney 1, Gosberton 2 and Irnham 1 and 2 – and the fifth at Empingham in Rutland. He views them as a near-contemporary development of slightly coped covers with a broad ridge shaft as at West Deeping 1, Ingoldmells 2 and 4, and Friskney 2, and assigns a date bracket of 1100–1140 to the group. The short cross-bar may equally be compared with those on Ingoldmells 1, also a Barnack product, though there they are developed into a bobbin or 'bow-tie' form.
