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Object type: Fragment of panel(?) [1]
Measurements: H. 20 cm (7.9 in); W. 33 cm (13 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Limestone, pale buff with darker yellow patina, cellular, medium to coarse grained, oolitic and sparsely shelly limestone. Upper Permian, local Cadeby Formation (Lower Magnesian Limestone). [G.L.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 824
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 280
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A dressed stone with at one end a rosette motif with a hollowed circle at the centre. All the 'petals' are hollowed out.
Appendix A item (Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
The eight-petalled flower certainly appears in pre-Conquest sculpture, some very early (see Chap. V, p. 50), but reappeared in some form at least as late as the ninth to tenth centuries, for example on the back of the cross-head High Hoyland 1 (Ill. 327). In the absence of any other ornament or certain indication of form, however, in this instance it could be early, or more probably the termination of a cross on a thirteenth- to fourteenth-century grave slab. There may originally have been a stem, but if lightly incised this could have disappeared on this crumbling stone.
