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Object type: Part of cross-shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 45.5 cm (18 in); W. 34.3 cm (13.5 in); D. 22 cm (8.75 in)
Stone type: Fine-grained, dolomitic, pale brown (10YR 8/3) limestone; Lower Magnesian Limestone, Upper Permian;
Plate numbers in printed volume: 258-259
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 89
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Only two faces are visible; traces of red pigment survive on each. The decoration is crisp.
A (broad): The bottom 10 cm of the base is undecorated. Within a narrow roll-moulded frame, set in from the edge by 2.5 cm, is a roughly cut ring-knot: a bungled version, with very broad median-incised strands. The top is broken away.
B (narrow) and C (broad): Built in.
D (narrow): The outer edge moulding is damaged. Within it is a narrow moulding framing a free ring and long diagonals with a bar terminal below, using broad, median-incised strands.
This is a clumsily cut piece, but the attempt at the ring-knot and ring-twist is firmly in the Anglo-Scandinavian tradition of simplified, closed circuit interlace. The red pigment may have enhanced the carving, but it can hardly have concealed the bungling of the knot on face A.
