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Object type: Fragment of cross-head(?)
Measurements: H. 15 cm (6 in); W. 11 cm (4.25 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Medium-grained red sandstone (St Bees sandstone)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 470
Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 133
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Only one face is visible. A raised boss at the centre is surrounded by broad pseudo-interlace formed by adjacent rectangles carved in low relief. The boss has a central drilled hole.
The drilled hole may have carried a decorative stone, glass or paste. The interlace appears to be of a type which can be paralleled elsewhere in the Viking-period north at sites as far dispersed as Kirby Hill, Kirkdale, Wath, Adel, and Cawthorne in Yorkshire or Kirkclaugh and Minnigaff in Kirkcudbrightshire (Collingwood 1907a, 339, 345, 406; idem 1911a, 286; idem 1915a, 132, 153; idem 1927a, fig. 226). This type of ornament is designed to give the same impressionistic rendering of interlace as is achieved in a slightly different manner on Burton in Kendal 3. Stylistically this kind of pseudo-interlace probably developed from shallow interlace of the type seen on the Stanwix cross-head or on Muncaster 1.
