Modest in size, roughly half a metre long and less than a quarter of a metre tall, it has been carved with a neat rectangular basin hollowed into its upper face. The outer surfaces are left rough, which suggests the finished, worked face was always the top, the part meant to hold something, or to be used in some way that required a smooth, contained hollow.The block was found at the rear of the house, though nobody now knows where it originally stood or what purpose it served. A basin cut into stone of this kind could have belonged to almost any context: a font, a piscina used in a church for washing sacred vessels, a mortar for grinding, or a simple trough. Without knowing its provenance, none of these possibilities can be confirmed or ruled out. What is clear is that someone, at some point, moved it from wherever it began its life to the back of the house, and later it was brought around to the front garden, where it sits today as an unresolved fragment of a longer, unrecoverable story.