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Object type: Grave-cover(s)[1]
Measurements: Not recorded
Stone type: Not recorded
Plate numbers in printed volume: N/a
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 299
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Five stone 'coffin lids' are said to have been discovered, decorated with '?Greek crosses and ?other ornamentation'. One was ridged, the rest flat; on two the decoration was incised, on the others raised (H. E. Smith, Caistor antiquarian notebooks, 108B, 8).
Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).
Contemporary opinion was that these were thirteenth-century grave-covers. The reference to 'Greek crosses' may suggest the presence of earlier simple cross types, such as occur on ridged covers at Langton by Wragby 1 and 2, or flat covers at Marton 4, Winterton 1, Brauncewell 1 etc. These are generally of eleventh-century date.
