Volume 5: Lincolnshire

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Current Display: Lincoln (St Swithun) 01, Lincolnshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Unknown; not found in 1986
Evidence for Discovery
Greenhill (1986, 85) reports that on a visit in 1930 he saw the cover in the former burial ground of St Swithun's, opposite the church.
Church Dedication
St Swithun
Present Condition
Unknown
Description

Coped cover, described by Greenhill (ibid.) as 'a long, coffin-shaped slab...much perished in places, especially at bottom, bearing within a plain incised border band a simple Y-shaped figure that follows the ridges of the coping'.

Discussion

Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).

Greenhill assesses the cover's date as '?12th century', and indeed the decoration described may be similar to Lincoln St Mark 25, 26 and 27 for which a twelfth- or even early thirteenth-century date is probable.

Date
Late eleventh or twelfth century(?)
References
Greenhill 1986, 85
Endnotes

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