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Object type: Grave-covers
Measurements: Not recorded
Stone type: [Possibly Barnack limestone]
Plate numbers in printed volume: N/a
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 301-302
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Butler (1961, 40) identifies a form of simply decorated, slightly coped cover with thin ridge shaft and a single short arm cross at the head. He notes two examples of this monument type at Irnham in his supporting catalogue (ibid., 154), on one or both of which the cross-arm is said to extend across the whole width of the cover.
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 in Lincolnshire – Friskney 1, Gosberton 2, and Irnham 1 and 2. He views them as a near-contemporary development of slightly coped covers with a broad ridge shaft like those at West Deeping 1, Ingoldmells 2 and 4, and Friskney 2.
