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Object type: Fragment of grave-cover(?) [1]
Measurements: L. 42 cm (16.5 in) W. 20 cm (7.9 in) D. Built in
Stone type: [Ancaster Freestone, Upper Lincolnshire Limestone, Inferior Oolite Group]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Fig. 9; Ill. 59
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 112-113
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A section from what was probably a large grave-cover, decorated with interlace in low relief on the only visible face.
A (broad): The surviving face comprises a rectangular panel with a double cable moulding along one border. The panel is decorated with a run of four-strand plait (motif xi, Fig. 10) which terminates within the fragment with box points at either end. The interlace strand is quite narrow and of rectangular section. At one end of the surviving fragment is a cut but undecorated surface, which may have originally formed part of an undecorated border.
This fragment is best explained as a fragment from a grave-cover of the mid-Kesteven group (Chapter V). The interlace is cut in the appropriate style and it also appears to be made of the appropriate stone type. Although this fragment is only small, knowledge of more complete examples of the group permits the suggestion that it represents the transverse panel decorating the end of the lid of a large member of this group (Fig. 9). The mid-Kesteven grave-covers are dated to the period between the mid tenth and the early eleventh century.
