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Object type: Part of grave-cover, in five pieces
Measurements: L. c.172 cm (67.75 in); W. 68.5 > 44.5 cm (27 >17.5 in); D. 20.5 cm (8 in)
Stone type: Pale grey bioclastic limestone, with a finely granular, slightly silty matrix, including pellets and numerous small arcuate shell fragments. Cathedral Beds, Lower Lincolnshire Limestone of Lincoln vicinity
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 416–17
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 286
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Five fragments from the same large tapered grave-cover, only two directly conjoined. It is slightly bevelled rather than coped and the underside is the same: the edges are worked in a similar rounded or bevelled section. The head end is domed: decoration is confined to the upper surface.
A (top): A border, ridge rib, and its Y-form development at the ends in imitation of a roof-like hipped gable, are defined by a roll moulding so poorly executed by light incisions that the effect is flat and two-dimensional.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
This cover is so close in conception to Lincoln St Mark 26, though not in execution, that it seems best regarded as a poor contemporary imitation of the other's design. The well-formed domed head certainly supports a post-Conquest date.
