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Object type: Grave-cover(?)
Measurements: Not recorded
Stone type: Not recorded
Plate numbers in printed volume: N/a
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 302
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Butler (1961, 149) catalogues a 'slab', presumably a grave-cover, decorated with a 'simple Latin cross, narrow arms'.
Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).
Although Butler groups this item in a date-bracket of 1100–1180 within his catalogue, supporting a discussion of post-Conquest monuments dating to the period 1066–1140, it appears from his description as though this piece may be comparable with several other items in Lincolnshire. In particular it seems like the cover at Brauncewell (five miles north-west, Ill. 65), though there are potentially similar monuments at a number of other locations, such as the excavated examples at St Mark's, Lincoln (nos. 6, 9 and 19). These simple cross types are hard to date accurately (Chapter V) and the St Mark's examples demonstrate their use in the central eleventh century.
