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Object type: Grave-cover
Measurements: L. 75 cm (29.5 in) W. 33.5 > 18 cm (13.25 > 7 in) D. 18 cm (7 in)
Stone type: Pale grey, hard silty limestone, with scattered pellets and shell fragments; poorly preserved bivalve casts on under-surface of slab; as Lincoln St Mark 5. Greetwell Member, Lower Lincolnshire Limestone of Lincoln vicinity
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 406
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 283-284
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A complete small flat tapered grave-cover, decorated only on its upper surface. It has a slightly domed head.
A (top): The face is edged with a crude chamfered border and decorated with a simple equal-armed cross (type A1) formed by a crude V-shaped incision.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Though first described as a grave-marker (Colyer 1976; Rodwell 1981, 160), its border chamfer, weathering, and the presence of a range of small covers from St Mark's make this monument likely to be a grave-cover. The evidence from the excavated collection at St Mark's suggests that this type of cover might have a long potential date span of later tenth to mid thirteenth century (Stocker 1986a, 55–6). Its specific form – small, markedly tapered and with a domed head end – might suggest a post-Conquest date, but the analogies for the simple decoration (as with Lincoln St Mark 21) are with the simplest monuments of presumed pre-Conquest date, as at Ardwall Isle (Thomas 1967) and The Hirsel (Cramp and Douglas-Home 1977–8).
