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Object type: Grave-marker
Measurements: H. 53 cm (21 in); W. disc head 29 cm (11.5 in); shaft 33 > 31 cm (13 > 12 in); D. 12 cm (4.75 in)
Stone type: Olive grey to pale brownish yellow (2.5Y 7/3–8), cavernous-weathered, soft ferruginous limestone, including goethite ooliths of 0.3mm diameter. Tealby Limestone, Lower Cretaceous of Lincolnshire
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 394
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 275-276
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A disc-headed marker with shouldered and tapering shaft.
A (broad): So badly weathered that no trace of decoration that may have existed on the disc survives.
C (broad): Not visible.
B and D (narrow): Undecorated.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
See Beelsby 1. This is a marker type of common occurrence in Lincolnshire with its disc head normally decorated with an incised or low relief cross, like that on no. 1. This appears to have been lost by excessive weathering of a poor stone in this case.
