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Object type: Incomplete grave-cover, in two pieces
Measurements:
a: L. 34 cm (13.5 in) W. 35 cm (13.75 in) D. < 18 cm (7 in)
b: L. 48 cm (19 in) W. 20 cm (7.75 in) D. < 18 cm (7 in) (newly broken into two fragments)
Stone type: Pale grey oolitic limestone, with ooliths of c. 0.6mm diameter fairly closely packed in a calcite matrix. Coarser than Lincoln St Paul 3, and cf. Cammeringham 1 and Tathwell 1. Upper Lincolnshire Limestone [but not Ancaster and Barnack types]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Fig. 14; Ills. 239–40
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 199-200
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Two non-adjacent pieces from the central part of the same flat, rectangular or slightly tapering grave-cover of Lindsey type, decorated in low relief and only on the upper surface.
A (top): The border is defined by a single cable moulding, and the central field was occupied by three interconnecting lines of simple pattern F interlace which produced a repetitive figure-of-eight pattern. Two incomplete rows survive on each stone. The figure-of-eight units measure 19.5 × 13 cm (7.5 × 5 in): the layout is competent but not completely regular in spacing of the rows, and the lines of interlace are unusually close together, almost contingent. The decoration stands sharply as a squared U section against the flat cut-away background.
B and D (long): Undecorated: one edge (stone 3a) is worked to a more markedly battered section than the other.
F (bottom): Broken surfaces except for a small area on stone 3a of original dressed surface, in which two deep grooves parallel with the cover's edge survive.
This is one of the interlace covers of Lindsey type discussed in Chapter V. Its single cable border places this in sub-group (b) (Table 6). It had an original width of approximately 54 cm (21.25 in), that is at the top end of the normal range of sizes. The stone itself was unusually thick and not uniform in that dimension. Stocker's reconstruction (1986a, fig. 53) should probably be inverted since the indications are that the cable bordering standardly ran the other way.
