Volume 5: Lincolnshire

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Current Display: Scott Willoughby 01a–b, Lincolnshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
1a, reset in west face of south jamb of chancel arch c. 3m above the floor and 20cm from south-east corner. 1b, reset in east face of south jamb of chancel arch, eighth stone from floor in north-east quoin.
Evidence for Discovery
None. Presumably the stones were set in this position when the church was rebuilt in 1826 or when the chancel was remodelled in 1863 (Pevsner et al. 1989, 628).
Church Dedication
St Andrew
Present Condition
1a, good, somewhat weathered and abraded. 1b, poor, surface has been planed away.
Description

Stone 1a. Part of a panel decorated with interlace in low relief. The panel has a well preserved cable-moulded border around two sides. The interlace consists of a run of four-strand plait in a changing pattern, including a closed ring and a unit of simple pattern F. The run terminates with a simple pattern E knot in the corner formed by the cable moulding. The interlace strand has an incised medial line.

Stone 1b. A fragment from a much larger panel from which the surface has been removed on the sculpted face. The decoration, however, is still visible in outline and consists of a run of three-strand plait which terminated with a loose end within this fragment. There is a narrow border along one edge of the plaitwork and a broad border along the other; any decoration on either has been removed.

Discussion

Both the stone type and the style and layout of the interlace on both pieces identify these fragments as two side panels from what was probably the same original mid-Kesteven grave-cover (Chapter V). Both stones have been truncated during reuse, as such flank panels usually have a vertical panel at one end. There is some room for such a panel on 1b, but in the case of 1a such a panel is missing completely and has probably been removed prior to its reuse. Even so, both stones can be reconstructed as horizontal panels from the flanks of the same original grave-cover (Fig. 9). A date between the mid tenth century and the early eleventh is likely for members of this cover group.

Date
Mid tenth to early eleventh century
References
Stone 1a only: Butler 1963–4, 110, fig. 1, no. 3; Pevsner et al. 1989, 629
Endnotes

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