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Object type: Impost
Measurements: H. c. 30 cm (11.8 in); W. c. 30 cm (11.8 in); D. unknown
Stone type: Unknown
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 474
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 258
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This is one of a pair of imposts (see Derby 12) now only known as a drawing included in Stevens’ letter of 1845 ((—) 1845b, fig. between 76–77) which was reproduced by Cox (1879). Only two faces of the impost (A and B) were illustrated.
A: The illustration shows a series of linear patterns on this face, one of which, at the upper edge, might have formed a Latin cross; below is a bifurcating frond emerging from a three-stepped motif. The field seems to have been framed by a narrow roll moulding that in the angle between A and B is cut away to accommodate a short column (possibly only c. 7 cm (2.75 in) in diameter if Cox’s description of its measurements is correct) decorated with an indefinable scrolled interlace including a closed-circuit ring.
B: This face is undecorated except for a series of three squares, nested within each other, set directly over the short column inset in the angle between A and B; the narrow roll moulding framing this device continues as on A.
C and D: Unknown
Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
See Derby 12.
