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Object type: Part of cross-shaft
Measurements: L. 42 cm (16.5 in) W. 21 > 20 cm (8.3 > 7.9 in) D. Built in
Stone type: Yellowish grey (10YR 8/2) shelly pelletal oolitic limestone, with closely packed ooliths of 0.3 to 0.5mm diameter and 2 to 3mm pellets and shell fragments in a calcite matrix, the shell fragments layered parallel to the exposed face of the stone. Upper Lincolnshire Limestone, Inferior Oolite Group
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 152
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 153-154
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Fragment of a shaft decorated with interlace in low relief on the only visible face.
B (narrow): The decoration is enclosed on both sides by the angles of the shaft which are undecorated and of rectangular section. The interlace itself is a plain four-strand plait and is competently executed. There is a drilled hole at the intersection of two strands in the centre of the piece. The fact that this hole is sited in the centre of the present fragment may suggest that it was made subsequent to the original use of the shaft but before its placement here.
This fragment has the appropriate size and dimensions to be a section from the narrow side panel of a shaft of the South Kesteven group (Chapter V), although the stone type is not confirmed as from the Barnack group of quarries. It has the characteristic undecorated borders of rectangular section and appears to be made of the appropriate stone type. Similar four-strand plaits occur on the side panels of several members of the group, for example Creeton 1 (Ills. 125, 127).
Members of this group of shafts have been dated to the end of the tenth or the eleventh century. As this piece is quite well cut it may belong with the supposed earlier examples (as Creeton 1) rather than the poorly executed later examples like that at Stoke Rochford.
