Volume 5: Lincolnshire

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Overview
Present Location
Unknown; not found in 1985
Evidence for Discovery
During restoration of the eleventh-century west tower in 1907, 'the head portion of an old stone coffin was found built into the southwest angle as a quoin stone near the ground, and underneath it another stone, about 6 ins. thick, with a cross roughly cut on the front and the back' ((—) 1907–8, lxvii–lxix)
Church Dedication
Not available
Present Condition
Unknown
Description

Apparently the whole or part of a grave-marker, since it had a cross on both faces.

Discussion

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

Unless it was part of a later repair (which its association with part of a stone coffin might perhaps suggest), the secondary use of this stone in the quoin of a tower that has been taken to be late pre-Conquest (Taylor and Taylor 1965, 412–15; Taylor 1978, 839, 865) or early Norman (Brown 1925, 470) points to its earlier primary use, i.e. at latest eleventh-century.

Date
Possibly eleventh century or earlier
References
(—) 1907–8, lxvii–lxix
Endnotes

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