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Object type: Grave-cover
Measurements: Not recorded
Stone type: ...a silvery grey, highly shelly limestone' (Butler 1961, 154)
Plate numbers in printed volume: N/a
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 300
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Butler (1961, 39–40) identifies a form of cover that he characterises as 'a plain slab, slightly coped with a central ridge accentuated by a flat roll moulding running the entire length of the slab': he notes an example at Friskney with 'later Lombardic inscription' in his supporting catalogue (ibid., 154).
Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).
Butler assigns a date bracket of 1060–1120 to the group of twelve examples from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Rutland (ibid., 154). Excavated evidence, notably from St Mark's at Lincoln, suggests that a wider date bracket, perhaps of eleventh to thirteenth century, would be more appropriate to such a simply ornamented monument, were it genuine. However, the most plausible identification for Butler's description is a confection of stone fragments including a post-medieval inscription that make up one of the piers of the churchyard gate.
