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Object type: Part of grave-cover [1]
Measurements: Dimensions not recorded. Based on relative size to Miningsby 1 in Ross manuscript drawing: L. c. 50 cm (20 in) W. c. 38 cm (15 in) D. c. 16 cm (6.25 in)
Stone type: [Not recorded, but presumably as Miningsby 1 and the cover type]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Fig. 14; Ill. 303
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 234-235
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The Ross manuscript drawing (Ill. 303) shows the incomplete end of a flat rectangular grave-cover decorated identically to Miningsby 1 on its upper surface. The one original edge – the end of the cover – has a double cable border, but this is missing from both sides, presumably removed in reuse. The fourth edge is broken, truncating the decorative pattern. That pattern comprises one complete row of repetitive interlinked figure-of-eight motifs in three lines (simple pattern F) and a second also complete but very badly eroded.
This is clearly a fragment, that is otherwise unrecorded, from a cover of Lindsey type like Miningsby 1. The drawing that records it presents problems at two levels, however. First, its depiction of Miningsby 1 is inaccurate in showing only four rather than five rows of figure-of-eight pattern. In other respects, however, it is well-observed. This may suggest that the general form and decoration of the Miningsby 2 fragment is probably reliable, including the effects of a reuse different from Miningsby 1, but the detail may not be, for example in not clearly showing a logical termination of the figure-of-eight pattern. Secondly, it is difficult on this evidence to be sure whether this fragment may represent the missing lower section of Miningsby 1. Certainly no other example of the Lindsey cover type has as many as the seven rows of figure-of-eight that adding Miningsby 2 to Miningsby 1 would give, nor an overall length of the order of 162cm (64 in). Perhaps, therefore, there were a pair of near-identical covers, as at Lincoln St Mark (nos. 3 and 4; Ills. 239, 241), or at Aisthorpe, Bassingham, Burton Pedwardine and Creeton with mid-Kesteven examples, and at Langton by Wragby.
