What is recorded here

Graveslab in Roscam is a broken medieval stone lying across a possible grave plot, its surface carrying a Latin cross with fleur-de-lis ends. It measures 1.84m long, tapers from 0.6m at the top to 0.48m at the base, and breaks just below the middle. The cross runs the full length of the slab, while small flame-like shapes reach inward from the edges. Whatever body once rested beneath it has left no name, only a shadow shaped by stone.

This medieval graveslab (L 1.84m; Wth across top 0.6m; base Wth 0.48m) is lying on a possible stone-lined grave plot in the graveyard (GA094-072003-) within the early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA094-072002-) at Roscam. The sides of the slab, which tapers from top to bottom and also decreases in thickness from the top (T 0.12m) towards the bottom (Wth 0.08m), are bevelled. It is broken in two just below the mid-way point and a small portion of the top of the lower portion is also fractured. It bears a two-line Latin cross in false relief within a frame. The head and arms of the cross end in fleur-de-lis motifs and there appears to be four other similar motifs extending from the top and sides of the slab into towards the centre of the cross. The shaft of the cross extends along the length of the slab. The following image has been uploaded: GA094-072011- View from S Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 May 2017

Medieval Christian burial monument, 13th–15th century; significant as part of an early ecclesiastical site indicating long-term religious use of the Roscam area.

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