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Object type: Part of grave-cover
Measurements: L. 47 cm (18.5 in) W. 44 cm (17.3 in); D. 8 cm (3.1 in)
Stone type: Yellowish grey (10YR 8/3) shelly oolitic limestone, with ooliths and worn skeletal fragments around 0.5mm diameter in a hard calcite matrix. Upper Lincolnshire Limestone, Inferior Oolite Group
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 86
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 127
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A fragment from the upper shaft of a small standing cross. The stone has been recut on three faces, removing much of the cross-head. Decoration only survives on the remaining broad face. The angles of the shaft are undecorated and of sub-circular section. There is a broken socket hole in the lower end.
A (broad): (i) On the shaft, the remains of a panel of interlace in low relief. The interlace is divided into (at least) two registers by a return near what was probably the centre of the shaft. The surviving unit is a grid of six-cord plait, with two free ends at the top. The strands are of rectangular section. (ii) The cross-head was also decorated with interlace, divided from that in the shaft by a roll moulding. All that survives of this interlace are the two loops which occupy the terminal of the lower cross-arm. The decoration must have been of the type surviving at several sites discussed below, although it is not possible to say whether this head had pierced interstices or was a solid disc.
See Carlby 2.
