A? (broad): Five petals of a deeply cut rosette attached to a stem which curls to the left with a rounded internal leaf. The main stem enclosing the rosette springs from a cup-like node which is lightly ridged. A stiff, rounded bud and another strand spring from the node. This strand curls back to enclose two pellets or berries, below a pendent leaf with large detached lobes or flanking berries.

B? (narrow): Tooled with rough diagonal tooling.

C? (broad): Split away.

D? (narrow): Broken away.

This was once part of a large-scale scroll, on what was probably one of the broad faces of the cross. The plant form has some features in common with Lowther 1 and 2, such as the rosettes in the scroll, loose berries or pellets and the leaf type, but it is carved in a deep, bold style which is quite different from the western scrolls and can be paralleled east of the Pennines. Rosettes in scrolls can be found at Hoddom, Dumfriesshire (Radford 1954, pl. IIIb) and also at Wycliffe, Yorkshire, where the scroll is cut in the same bold manner as here (Collingwood 1907a, 412, fig. d). However, rosette motifs are a common feature on sculpture from Hexham, Northumberland (Cramp 1984, 172, 910; 178, 944; 179, 955; 182, 972;), as well as occurring on Carlisle 1 (see above, p. 85). It is unfortunate that, as at Brigham 1, only a fragment of this distinctive scroll survives to indicate the presence of what must have been an imposing and large-scale monument.