⁶ I am grateful to Mr. M. J. Jones, Director of Excavations, Lincoln Archaeological Trust, who invited my report on the sculpture; to Mr. A. J. White and Mr. T. M. Ambrose, Keeper and Assistant Keeper of Archaeology in the City and County Museum, Lincoln, for their comments on a draft of this note, and to Dr. J. P. Wild, F.S.A., who discussed details of the figures' dress with me. The stone has been identified by Malcolm Fenton, Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham, as a fine-grained Lincolnshire limestone with shelly bands.

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¹¹ RIB 1331.

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