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Object type: Round-headed grave-marker
Measurements: H. 54 cm (21.2 in) W. 26.7 cm (10.5 in) D. 14 > 11.5 cm (5.5 > 4.5 in) Diam. 29.8 cm (11.7 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained deltaic sandstone with sub-angular grain. Very pale brown (10YR 7/4). Upper Carboniferous sandstone, probably from Barningham Moor to the south of the settlement
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 1132–6
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 277
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A cross, type B6, is carved in relief on both faces of the upper portion of the stone, which has a rough rectangular base waisted in to a round top. The head has been smoothly finished, but there is a grooved moulding beneath the lower arm on face A, and there are traces of a relief circle in the centre of face C. All other surfaces are roughly finished and it is presumed that the block base would have been sunk into the ground.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Such grave-markers placed at the head, or head and foot of a grave seem to be a popular form in the late eleventh century. Very similar monuments have been found in Northumberland (see Cramp 1984, pls. 234, 1325–7; 248, 1374), and their dating is provided by the reused marker from Newcastle upon Tyne (Cramp 1984, 244–5); compare Stanwick 20 (Ill. 1159).
