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Object type: Part of grave-cover
Measurements: L. 29 cm (11.5 in); W. 36 cm (14 in); D. > 11 cm ( > 4.25 in)
Stone type: Pale grey oolitic limestone, with 'millet-seed' ooliths of 0.5 to 0.6mm diameter, in a hard, fine-grained matrix; some vughs (possibly sites of fossils) and a small ostreid shell noted. Lower Lincolnshire Limestone, Inferior Oolite Group, possibly from Lincoln vicinity
Plate numbers in printed volume: Fig. 14; Ill. 359
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 263
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A fragment from one end of a flat, rectangular or slightly tapering cover of Lindsey type decorated in low relief and only on the upper surface.
A (top): The border is defined by a single cable moulding and the central field is occupied by the remains of three interconnecting lines of simple pattern F interlace, which produce a figure-of-eight pattern in one incomplete row. The figure-of-eight units measure approximately 19 × 12 cm (7.5 × 4.75 in). The layout is competently regular, but the lines of interlace touch instead of being separated by the recessed background as is typical of the cover type. The decoration stands sharply as a squared U section against the flat cut-away background.
C (end) and D (long): Undecorated.
B (long) and E (end): Broken irregularly.
F (bottom): Not an original cut surface, perhaps irregularly split.
This is one of the interlace covers of Lindsey type discussed in Chapter V. It belongs to the sub-group (b) distinguished by its single cable border (Table 6). It is distinctive in the way its lines of knots touch instead of leaving a clear reserved space between as is the norm for the type. The unit width of the figure-of-eight is as standard but the overall width of the slab at 46 cm (18 in) was a little below the norm of the cover type. This suggests the adaptation of a very standard pattern to a stone slab marginally smaller than required.
