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Object type: Grave-cover
Measurements: Not recorded
Stone type: [Possibly Barnack limestone]
Plate numbers in printed volume: N/a
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 300-301
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Butler (1961, 40) identifies a form of simply decorated slightly coped cover with thin ridge shaft and a single short cross-arm at the head. He notes an example of this form with the lower half missing at Gosberton in his supporting catalogue (ibid., 154).
Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).
Butler assigns a date bracket of 1100–1140 to the group of five examples that he lists, four of them – Friskney 1, Gosberton 2, and Irnham 1 and 2 – in Lincolnshire. 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.
