Record ID: LEIC-848962
Object type: GRAVE MARKER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval?? stone grave marker. 190mm long, 120mm wide and 70mm thick. The object has a roughly rectangular form and semi circular cross section. The left side (as photographed) is quite rectangular and the object slopes across its face to a more rounded and shallower right side. It has a flat and plain reverse and its upper and lower edges are damaged or roughly hewn. In the centre of its face is a carved cross with a v shaped recess. The most obvious use for such an object would be as a grave marker.
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2016
Last updated: Friday 4th March 2016
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Record ID: LIN-3DD243
Object type: GRAVE MARKER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval limestone 'eared' grave-marker with a conventional 'X patee' form of cross. A number of Lincolnshire examples of this type of monument are listed in Appendix F of the Lincolnshire Corpus volume (P Everson and D Stocker, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture V: Lincolnshire, Oxford 1999). They are found quite regularly in Eastern England and are often grouped according to their quarry source. This particular example may well derive from Ancaster. The usually accepted typology suggests that they belong to the first century after the Conquest in date, though they per…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd July 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 9th July 2014
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