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Object type: Grave-cover
Measurements: L. 214 cm (84.25 in) W. 75 > 38 cm (29.5 > 15 in) D. Built in
Stone type: [Barnack Rag type, Upper Lincolnshire Limestone, Inferior Oolite Group]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 403
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 281
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A plain, tapered and slightly coped grave-cover. Only one face is visible.
A (top): The central ridge is accentuated by a flat roll moulding running the entire length of the slab.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Butler notes two examples of this form at Ingoldmells in his supporting catalogue (1961, 154), but only one has been found again (see also Ingoldmells 4). He assigns a date bracket of 1060–1120 to the group of twelve examples of covers of this form from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Rutland (ibid.). Excavated evidence, notably from St Mark's at Lincoln, suggests that a wider date bracket, perhaps of eleventh to thirteenth century, might be more appropriate to such simply ornamented monuments; but this large cover differs little from Ingoldmells 1 except in the absence of the repeated 'bow-tie' motif. They might be a contemporary or near-contemporary pair.
