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Object type: Fragment of grave-marker or -cover [1]
Measurements: L. 29 cm (11.4 in) W. 23 cm (9 in) D. 12.3 cm (4.8 in)
Stone type: Coarse, well sorted, feldspathic sandstone, having a light yellow brown colour (10YR 6/4). Stone provenance as Whitby 1 (abbey, St Peter and St Hilda)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 1048–9
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 256
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Corner of a slab with one carved face. The face is plain and along one edge a double incised moulding survives; the outer moulding measures 2.5 cm, the inner 2 cm. There is a single incised moulding on the damaged edge at right angles to this. In the centre there is possibly part of a cross-arm.
Fragments of such very plain slabs are difficult to date: they could be contemporary with the plain crosses, or stelae with finely carved edge mouldings such as those found in the York Minster cemetery (Lang 1991, ills. 86–90), or they could be later and comparable with the slab from St Mary Bishophill Junior which has been dated much later (Lang 1991, ills. 404–12). On the whole though the earlier date seems preferable.
