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Object type: Grave-marker fragment
Measurements: L. 18 cm (7.1 in) W. 17 cm (6.7 in) D. 9.5 cm (3.8 in)
Stone type: Medium- to coarse-grained feldspathic Millstone Grit. Sub-angular to angular grains in well sorted fabric. Bedding planes with limonite concentrations parallel to the main faces. Colour of the main rock light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), with the limonite being a brown colour (10YR 4/3). From a North Pennine source, probably Red Scar Grit (Namurian, Upper Carboniferous) of the Wensleydale area
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 1157–8
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 285
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A triangular fragment from a round-headed grave-marker. The only surviving ornament is on the curved top of the piece which is decorated with grooved meander 1 pattern. The two adjacent broad faces are badly damaged but apparently plain. The other narrow edges are broken.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Such round-headed grave-markers are found on either side of the Conquest, but this decorated example is more likely to be early, see for instance Bothal 5, Northumberland (Cramp 1984, pl. 160, 836–40). Meander pattern is also found on the similar curved ends of two type j (wheel-rim) hog-backs at Lythe (nos. 30 and 31; Ills. 569–71, 577–9). This piece may be unfinished.
