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Object type: Grave-marker(?)
Measurements: H. 32 cm (12.6 in) W. 31 cm (12.2 in) D. 10.2 cm (4 in)
Stone type: As Lythe 9
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 1150
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 282
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A (broad) : Only one face is decorated: with an incised simple cross (type A1), the ends of each arm rendered as crosslets. Its dimensions are 30 x 30 cm (12 x 12 in).
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
If this is indeed pre-Conquest, for there are no diagnostic stylistic features, then its size and motif would suggest a rough copy of the 'pillow stones' from Lindisfarne (Cramp 1984, 202–6) and Hartlepool (ibid., 97–101). The crosslet form does not occur elsewhere in Northumbria or Ireland, though equally primitive examples are common enough. Since there is no inscription it is possible that the stone might be a consecration cross from an earlier phase of the church.
