A fragment from the foot of a flat, tapered grave-cover. The boundary of the stone is marked by a border of rectangular section, damaged at the lower end, and there is a central shaft dividing the stone into two halves longitudinally. This shaft may have developed into a cross towards the head end. To either side of the central shaft are two registers of interlace. The strands are of squared section and have broad interstices. These form three-strand plait on both sides of the shaft and are symmetrical about it. There is a loose terminal at the base of each register.

The grave-cover represented by this fragment is closely paralleled by that at Market Deeping (no. 2, Ill. 288) and, more generally, its layout and stone type must associate it with the large Fenland group of grave-covers which were produced in the Barnack area and distributed from Lincoln to Suffolk and beyond (Chapter V and Table 5). Whaplode is the only Lincolnshire member of this group which has only three-strand (as opposed to four-strand) plait, though examples with three-strand plait are quite common elsewhere. Butler (1963–4, 109) compares the technique used here with several of the stones from Bicker, but it appears more similar to Market Deeping 2 and Lincoln Cathedral 1 (Ill. 230). The Fenland group of grave-covers probably date from the early and middle parts of the eleventh century, and the simplicity of the interlace in this example might support a date towards the end of the series.