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Object type: Incomplete round-headed grave-marker [1]
Measurements: H. 42.5 cm (16.7 in); W. 30 cm (11.8 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Limestone, pale yellow-buff to orange, cellular texture, medium to coarse grained oolitic limestone (flattened and ovoid ooliths). Upper Permian, local Cadeby Formation (Lower Magnesian Limestone). [G.L.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 820
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 279
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A round, or round-headed, grave-marker without a border.
A (broad): The visible face is quartered by an incised cross of type E8. The remainder is built into the wall.
Appendix A item (Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
Such simple monuments are very difficult to date but seem to be eleventh century, on either side of the Conquest. See Barningham 2 and Stanwick 20, north Yorkshire (Lang 2001, 277, 285, ills. 1132–6, 1159).
