Only one carved face is visible and there are no clear edges or mouldings. Two frontal figures, their bodies cut off at the feet, stand with their shoulders touching. Each has a halo with straight sides and a wedge-shaped face with lightly marked features. The figure on the left holds a staff, apparently with a Tau top, in its right hand and a book in its draped left hand. A fold of drapery hangs over its right arm, and the hems and fold under the book are filled in by complex shallow pleats. The figure on the right holds a rod in its left hand (the top of the rod is broken away); its right hand is held across the dress with the two first fingers extended in blessing. The edges of the drapery are less elaborately pleated than on the left figure, but in the centre of the garment there is an intricate panel of V-shaped folds.

These figures are not precisely like any others in Northumberland: they are more reminiscent of the Anglo-Scandinavian sculpture of the Tees valley in the shape of their faces and the way in which their shoulders join. However, they are not as stylized as, for example, Aycliffe 1, and, although the humped shoulders and grotesquely rounded elbows are reminiscent of the Durham cross-heads 5-8, there is a closer link with good drapery models. The haloes and the drapery folds have not developed far from something like Auckland St Andrew 1, but whether this is a copy of a model which has the same type of iconography as Auckland, or is the reflection in the late ninth century of midland taste, as shown, for example, on Bakewell or Bradbourne, both in Derbyshire, is difficult to decide. On the whole the former seems the more likely.