What is recorded here

St Francis' Abbey holds a broken graveslab base where a claw chisel cut vertical lines into limestone. The surviving fragment reveals part of a floriated cross ending in an oval knop and a faint fleur-de-lis, suggesting a grave marker for someone who wanted beauty recorded even in death.

In St Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-). A fragment of the base of a limestone graveslab (L 0.255m; Wth 0.195m; D 0.15m). It was probably decorated with an incised floriated cross. Only portion of the incised cross-shaft, terminating in an oval knop and a partial fleur-de-lis, survive. The surface was dressed with vertical tooling using a claw chisel (Duffy 2025, no. 12). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Medieval Christian graveslab fragment, 12th–13th century. Its incised floriated cross indicates a ecclesiastical or monastic context, associated with the nearby St Francis' Abbey.

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