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Object type: Font
Measurements: H. 35.5 cm (14 in); Diam. 73 cm (29 in); D. 23 cm (9 in); Total height: 87.5 cm (34 in)
Stone type: Heavily patinated, pale yellowish brown (10YR 6/2), bioclastic, limestone. Abraded, clastsupported shell fragments are mostly in the range 0.5 to 2.0 mm across, but a few are up to 3 mm. Most clasts are elongate and a poor alignment is discernible on the side. Doulting stone, Upper Inferior Oolite Formation, Inferior Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 355
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 181
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Roughly shaped plain bowl formed from a single stone, and lead lined.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Such simple fonts are difficult to date (see introduction p. 38) and this presents a similar problem to Shepton Mallet 2 (Ill. 373), which Allen considered was Anglo-Saxon (Allen 1907, 6). Bond did not list this font and Foster (1987, 68) considered it impossible to date. It is indeed difficult to place this in a firm dating context.
