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Object type: Part of grave-cover
Measurements: L. 137 cm (54 in); W. 38 cm (15 in); D. 15 cm (6 in)
Stone type: Not examined
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 736
Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 265
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The surviving face has a flat-band moulding at the top. In the centre at the top is an equal-armed cross with encircled boss at the crossing. The upper arm is flanked and overhung by two S-shaped forms made up of three mouldings; similar forms flank the lower arm. The ends of the lateral arms appear to carry additional half-round mouldings. Above and below the arms of the cross, and running down a central strip, is ornament made up of juxtaposed curving half-moon shapes formed from two strands.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
Though some of the ornament on this carving may have pre-Norman origins, it is more likely to be of Norman date. Among the material from the castle at Newcastle was a slab which similarly employed a variety of pre-Conquest motifs arranged in three parallel strips (Ryder 2002, fig. 14)
