The Corpus: Alstonefield 15

Volume 13: Derbyshire and Staffordshire

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Current Display: Alstonefield 15, Staffordshire

Overview

Object type: Part of round column [1]

Measurements: H. 52 cm (20.4 in); W. max. 26 cm (10.2 in); D. max. 25 cm (9.8 in)

Stone type: Fine-grained (to 0.3 mm), pale yellowish brown (5YR 6/2), protoquartzitic sandstone with iron oxide flecks. Clasts are sub-angular. Namurian sandstone consistent with the Ipstones Edge Sandstones and associated sandstones, Morridge Formation, Millstone Grit Group, Carboniferous (R.T.)

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 631

Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 317

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National Grid Reference of Place of Discovery

SK 133553

Present Location

As Alstonefield 13.

Evidence for Discovery

See Alstonefield 13.

Church Dedication

St Peter

Present Condition

As Alstonefield 14

Description

As Alstonefield 14

Discussion

Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)

See Alstonefield 14.

Date

Unknown, possibly originally Roman

References

See Alstonefield 13.

P.S.

Endnotes

[1] The following are non-specific references to monuments at Alstonefield: Purchas 1898–9, 87; (—) 1900, 196; (—) 1914–15, 204; (—) 1930–1, 163; Pape 1930–1, 145–6; (—) 1934–5, 85; Steele 1947–8a, 119; Steele 1947–8b, 173; Butler 1964, 112; Fisher 1968, 57; Pevsner 1974, 54–5; Plunkett 1984, 145–9, 285; Leonard 1995, 71; Greenslade 1996b, 21, 23–4; Sharpe 2002, 58