A fragment from a flat monument of uncertain form, decorated on its upper surface with an uncompleted incised outline cross with wedge-shaped arms (type B6). Only two arms are finished and those are incompetently produced. There are traces of setting-out lines.

This piece is included here because the location of its secondary use is in an architectural feature that has been taken to be original in a late pre-Conquest (Taylor and Taylor 1965, 412–15; Taylor 1978, 839, 865) or early Norman (Brown 1925, 470) tower. The rough and unfinished decoration may mean that it was a rejected failure, most likely for a grave-cover of small and perhaps tapering form, but just possibly for a panel like the small Crucifixion panel now in the chancel of Marton church (no. 6). Incised and shallow relief decoration employing this cross type or related variants on plain covers are found at Marton 4 (Ill. 292), Langton by Wragby 1 and 2 (Ills. 228–9), Carlby 2–4 (Ills. 84–7), Castle Bytham 1 (Ill. 88), Lincoln Cathedral 3 (Ill. 404) and Lincoln St Mark 14 and 20 (Ills. 252, 411), and on the ?tympanum at Nettleton 1 (Ill. 418), all of eleventh- or early twelfth-century date.