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Object type: Grave-cover
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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Butler (1961, 37–8, 154) describes a cover at Carlby on which the whole surface is decorated with a network of incised lines describing a 'cross formé' with each arm drawn six or more times. There is a schematic sketch in Butler's thesis archive.
Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).
Butler compares the cover with that at Whaplode (no. 2, Ill. 386), with which it would appear to have some similarities. If the cover is of the same date as those at Whaplode and elsewhere, then a date in the mid or later eleventh century is probably appropriate.
