This appears to have been a fragment from a large shaft decorated with interlace. Only one decorated face is now visible, which has two runs of vertical interlace, probably both of four-strand plait, which terminate towards the edge of the present fragment, leaving two loose ends. The two runs are divided from each other by a narrow fillet or shaft of rectangular section. A short length of the original border survives along one edge; it is undecorated and of rectangular section.

This is probably a fragment from the middle of a shaft belonging to the South Kesteven group (Chapter V), as it is of the appropriate stone type, and it has the characteristic dimensions (i.e. the broad face is approximately twice the width of the narrow – presuming that the presently visible depth is the original depth). It also has the characteristic undecorated borders of rectangular section found in the South Kesteven group. The decoration on the broad face, with two vertical registers of plaitwork or other interlace forms divided by a narrow fillet or shaft, is also found in other members of the South Kesteven group, e.g. at Stainby and Stoke Rochford (Ills. 335–8, 346–9). The South Kesteven group dates from the late tenth and early eleventh centuries, although the apparent similarities with Stoke Rochford and Stainby may suggest that Creeton 2 represents a later member of the group, belonging to the eleventh, rather than to the later tenth, century.