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Object type: Grave-cover
Measurements: Not recorded
Stone type: [Possibly Barnack limestone]
Plate numbers in printed volume: N/a
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 299-300
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Butler (1961, 37–8) in describing a practice of accentuating a cross pattern by finely-drawn lines identifies a subcategory of 'horizontal ridging'. In his supporting catalogue (ibid., 154) he lists an example at Carlby with such decoration on the cross-bar at the head end, which is said to resemble a cover at Tallington (no. 2 below).
Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).
Butler assigns a date bracket of 1080–1120 to this cover. Though estimating a similar date, he clearly distinguishes it from another cover which he describes as being a multiple-lined 'cross formé', presumably Carlby 5, by cataloguing it separately.
