What is recorded here

Graveslab in Roscam is a broken medieval slab lying on a 20th-century grave, its tapering stone split across the lower third yet still showing a Latin cross whose head radiates seven fleur-de-lis motifs. The chance that a modern grave received this old marker rather than burying it unseen gives the place a strange continuity, as if Roscam kept returning its dead and memories to the same early ecclesiastical ground.

This medieval graveslab has been placed lying on a 20th-century grave plot in the graveyard (GA094-072003-) within the early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA094-072002-) at Roscam. The slab (L 1.16m; Wth across top 0.36m; Wth across base 0.24m; T 0.08m), which tapers from top to bottom, is broken in two pieces. The break is roughly across the lower third of the slab. It bears an incised Latin cross with a beautifully decorated head consisting of seven fleur-de-lis motifs radiating out from a central circular area. The shaft of the cross extends along the length of the slab. A holed stone (GA094-072007-) has also been placed on the grave plot, to the N of the graveslab. The following image has been uploaded: GA094-072006- Broken graveslab with holed stone (GA094-072007-) to its right Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 May 2017

Medieval Christian graveslab, 12th–14th century; significant as a reused funerary monument within an early ecclesiastical site, indicating continuity of sacred use at Roscam.

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