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Object type: Part of cross-shaft
Measurements: H. 43 cm (16.9 in); W. 39.5 > 36 cm (15.5 > 14.2 in); D. unknown
Stone type: Greyish pink (5R 8/2), hard, fairly well sorted fine to medium-grained sandstone. Grains mainly quartz, subangular, many grains (0.1 to 0.3 mm) stained pink. The stone has been painted at some time and the interstitial space between the grains are full of paint. Possibly Clee Sandstone Formation, Woodbank Group, Lower Old Red Sandstone (Lower Devonian) or Farlow Group, Upper Old Red Sandstone (Upper Devonian).
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 576
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 322
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Cross-shaft with interlace square-knot. The incomplete motif consists of two squares with looped angles set diagonally and entwined. The carved surface of the raised motif is close-hatched with fine incised lines either side of a median-incised line, while the background is covered with fine, vertical tooling. The lower 22 cm (7.9 in) of the stone is uncarved.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
The motif on this cross-shaft is very similar to carvings from Ewenni 2 and Merthyr Mawr 11 in Glamorgan (Redknap and Lewis 2007, 295–6, ill. G19; 483, ill. G110). This type of square-knot is also found on two fragments of grave-covers from Bisley Parish, Gloucestershire (nos. 2 and 3, Ills. 453, 455), while at Llangarron, Herefordshire (no. 1, Ill. 536) there is a similar incised square-knot motif but without the encircling ring or enclosed diamond-shaped knot.
