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Object type: Part of cross-shaft
Measurements: H. 61 cm (24 in); W. 22 > 20 cm (8.75 > 7.75 in); D. 17 > 14 cm (6.75 > 5.5 in)
Stone type: Sandstone, cut across two beds, one of red, the other of green/grey
Plate numbers in printed volume: 402 - 5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 123
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Rectangular cross-shaft. All four faces of this badly squared stone are decorated in relief, the single panels bordered laterally by a roll moulding.
A (broad): At the top is the upper border of the panel; below is a Stafford knot terminating an irregular run of interlace whose broad strands bifurcate, fail to connect and, in the upper left corner, sprout a curling offshoot.
B and D (narrow): Step pattern, type 1.
C (broad): The upper section is occupied by two registers of double free rings and long diagonals ending below in a bar terminal. Underneath is what is probably the start of another such knot.
This fragment must have come from a large cross, incompetently carved, whose geological differences were presumably obscured by paint. The bifurcations in the interlace point to a date in the Viking period.
