Crowle Stone

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The Crowle Stone is the remains of an Anglo-Saxon cross at the back of the Church of England parish church of St Oswald at Crowle, Lincolnshire.{{PastScape|mnumber=59280|mname=Stone|accessdate=7 February 2011}}{{cite journal|journal=Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London|title=Notes on the Discovery of a Shaft of a Stone Cross, with a Runic Inscription, at Crowle Church, Lincolnshire|issue=4|first=J.T.|last= Fowler|year= 1868|pages=187–190}}

This was originally carved as a cross shaft and until 1919 it was used as a lintel over the west door. The preservation of the stone is almost certainly a result of the Norman masons reusing it when the church was built in 1150.{{PastScape|mnumber=59287|mname=Church|accessdate=7 February 2011}}

The stone measures {{convert|6|ft|11|in|m|abbr=on}} in height {{convert|16|in|mm|abbr=on}} thick and {{convert|8.5|in|mm|abbr=on}} wide.

The stone is ornately carved on all three sides. At the bottom of one face there is a runic inscription which would date the cross shaft as being before 950 as the use of runes had almost completely died out by then.