Stone 8a. A section from one end of a mid-Kesteven type grave-cover. The only visible face represents the side of the monument and is decorated with interlace in low relief. The original width of the monument can be seen in outline since the block is reset at a corner.

B (long): The decoration on the visible face is divided into two panels by a double vertical moulding which was probably originally cable-moulded but the incised cabling has been lost during the cutting back, which is evident across the surface of the whole stone. The small vertical panel at the end of this face is decorated with an interlace motif of type iv (Fig. 10). The strands have an incised medial line. The interlace run occupying the longer, horizontal, panel begins with a simple pattern E knot, before crossing within the remains of a pattern F loop. Again the strands are decorated with an incised medial line.

Stone 8b. A small fragment from a much larger monument decorated with interlace in low relief. The fragment retains an undecorated border of rectangular section. This border framed a panel filled with interlace of which only the edges of the loops of two units are preserved. These strands were decorated with an incised medial line and there is a free end terminal in the corner formed by the frame.

Stone 8a is a typical side panel from a large cover of the mid-Kesteven group (Chapter V). It is particularly close in its details to Creeton 7, face B, with which it shares the undivided long horizontal panel; and the vertical panel in both examples is occupied by a type iv interlace motif (Ills. 133, 136). 8b need not have come from this monument at all (see reconstruction in Fig. 9), but it appears to be of the correct stone type and the interlace cutting seems similar, so it is suggested here that it might have come from the flank of the same monument as 8a. These details, however, do not help in dating the piece more closely than the general date given to the mid-Kesteven group of between the mid tenth and early eleventh century.