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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. 301
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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 two examples at Ingoldmells in his supporting catalogue (ibid., 154), of which only one has been relocated, Ingoldmells 2 in Appendix A.
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 of this form of cover 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, might be more appropriate to such simply ornamented monuments.
