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Object type: Fragment of recumbent monument
Measurements: L. 28 cm (11 in) W. 25 cm (9.8 in) H. 21 cm (8.3 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained deltaic sandstone; the sub-angular well sorted grains include occasional feldspar fragments. Yellowish brown (10YR 5/4). Stone provenance as Kirby Sigston 1 (St Lawrence)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills.384–5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 138
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This is a pitched recumbent monument, but not enough of the roof survives to determine its type. The decorated surfaces are on the inclined pitches.
A (long) : The terminal loop of an interlace pattern remains in broad strand.
C (long) : A low relief fragment of terminal loop remains in a thinner strand than that of face A.
Possibly part of a hogback but more likely a coped grave-cover, it is not as ambitious as the hogbacks at nearby Brompton (nos. 16–26), but demonstrates the local taste for recumbent monuments. It is unusual to have interlace patterns on the roof pitches.
