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Object type: Grave-marker or -cover
Measurements: L. 46 cm (18.1 in) W. 30 cm (11.8 in) D. 9 cm (3.5 in)
Stone type: [Ancaster Freestone, Upper Lincolnshire Limestone, Inferior Oolite Group]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 395
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 277
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A small rectangular slab. Only two faces are visible.
A (broad): Decorated with an incised cross at one end. The cross is confined within a circle and is of type E8 with a central boss.
B (narrow): A chamfer along the visible edge dates from the reuse of the stone in its present position.
C–F: Built in.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
This slab is a member of the group of monuments of indeterminate function which could be grave-covers or -markers, and another example survives at Burton Coggles (no. 1), though with a different – and probably more archaic – cross-head type (Ill. 70). The cross-head type at Burton Coggles 2 occurs on different forms of marker, for example Bracebridge 2 and Beelsby 1 (Ills. 401, 392). It occurs, however, on the same monuments as cross pattée types and, consequently, this monument should be dated to the late eleventh or twelfth century.
