It is easy to step over without a second thought. What makes it worth pausing for is what it once said, and the fact that, sometime between a 1992 survey and a revisit in 2018, it apparently stopped saying anything at all.

Bradley and Dunne, writing in 1992, recorded this as a 17th-century cross-slab, a grave marker carrying a raised cross in relief and a partially legible inscription reading: PRAY FOR, followed by fragments, VLES OF, ALY AND, and a final broken sequence, …A.. The words are enough to suggest a conventional memorial formula, the kind of pious request carved for a named individual whose full identity the damage has long since swallowed. When the slab was inspected again in June 2018, a fragment close to the same wall roughly matched the recorded dimensions, but no trace of the inscription could be made out on its surface. Whether the lettering has worn away, whether the fragment seen in 2018 is even the same stone, or whether the original slab has been moved or broken further, is not clear from what survives of the record.