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Object type: Fragment of grave-cover
Measurements: L. 8.5 cm (3.25 in) W. 6 cm (2.25 in) D. 3.5 cm (1.5 in)
Stone type: Pale grey, finely granular limestone, with numerous Modiolus-like bivalves; as Lincoln St Paul 1. Cathedral Beds, Lower Lincolnshire Limestone of Lincoln vicinity
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 277
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 218-219
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A (top): A single small fragment from the foot end of a flat tapering cover. Decoration is confined to the upper surface and is incised. It comprises a narrow plain border defined by a single incised line, plus a curving incised line that represents one side of a splayed foot of a decorative cross. Because of broken surfaces, neither the original width nor the depth of the cover is calculable. The stone type is the same as Lincoln (St Paul-in-the-Bail) 1, but the prepared surface is much more highly finished.
This cover finds a close analogy in the excavated example, no. 13, from St Mark's church, Lincoln, whose decoration is confined to a border (in that case cabled) and an incised splay-footed cross (Ills. 253–4). St Paul 2 may have been a monument of similar or perhaps substantially smaller scale.
