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Object type: Grave-marker
Measurements: H. 52 cm (20.5 in); W. 42 cm (16.5 in); D. 10 cm (4 in)
Stone type: Pale yellowish brown (10YR 6/2), medium-grained (0.2 to 0.4 mm), angular to sub-angular, clast-supported, quartz sandstone. Helsby Sandstone Formation?, Sherwood Sandstone Group, Triassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 374-5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 139-40
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The slab was probably round-headed — the curve of the head survives in the upper right corner. The only decoration to survive is an equal-armed cross of type E8 carved in relief against a sunken circular background.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
In Northumbria cross forms with V-shaped armpits appear late within the pre-Conquest series and seem to span the Conquest (Cramp 1984, 8). The same dating pattern is repeated elsewhere (Everson and Stocker 1999, 277; Cramp 2006, 167). The best parallels for this type on a round-headed slab come from Norham and Woodhorn in Northumberland where they are referred to the eleventh century (Cramp 1984, 245–6, pl. 248.1374; Ryder 2002, fig. 32).
