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Object type: Two fragments, possibly of architectural panel
Measurements:
Fragment a: H. 4 cm (1.6 in); W. 5 cm (2 in); D. 1 cm (0.5 in)
Fragment b: H. 0.8 cm (0.25 in); W. 5 cm (2 in); D. 0.7 cm (0.25 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained red sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 97.523
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 115
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a. The head and part of the neck of a bird which have been chipped from a relief monument. The bird has a deeply cut round eye, and its long slightly curving beak is closed, and modelled in a lower relief.
b. A plain curving fragment of lesser depth.
The curving fragment seems most probably part of a scroll stem. The bird is not unlike those in the inhabited scroll (no. 19), but its long slender neck and closed curving beak remind one more of the birds in Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts.
