Many who examined the stone believed it to be an early baptismal font “hastily buried for security on the approach of some party of Danish pirates.” Others have speculated the object was a chest, or coffer, for the safe keeping of church valuables, which would accord with the fittings for a stone lid and comport with the Viking theory.
Several people who examined the stone thought it might have been an early baptismal font hastily buried for security against Danish pirates. Others speculated that it could have been a chest or coffer to store church valuables, which would be consistent with its stone lid fittings and support the Viking theory.