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Object type: Grave-cover
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 286
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Appendix B item (Stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
A grave-cover at the east end of the north aisle is sometimes said to be Saxon (e.g. Burns n.d.). It is a flat slab, tapering along its length. On its only carved face is a form of diaper pattern, formed from double-outlined lozenges with a 'chip-carved' centre. The outer edges of some lozenges join or flow into the next element, which has led to the ornament being described as a misunderstood key-pattern, post-Conquest but showing 'the survival of one form of earlier art' (i.e. the straight line pattern: Collingwood 1915a, 145). The pattern seems wholly Norman, however, of the eleventh to twelfth century.
