The stone is decorated in low relief on its only visible face with patterns that have been truncated through its being recut for secondary use. The stone's worn condition adds to the difficulty in discerning the details. In the centre is a cross with narrow wedge-shaped arms (type B6) perhaps attached to a small circular centre. Its narrow stem appears slightly bulbous or knopped immediately below the cross. To the left is the edge of a pattern of interlace or more likely interlocking circles. Below the cross-arm to the right is a fragment of chevron ornament.

Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).

This cross type occurs locally on grave-covers such as Langton by Wragby 1 and 2 (Ills. 228–9), Lincoln Cathedral 3 (Ill. 404), Lincoln St Mark 14 and 20 (Ills. 252, 411), and Marton 5 (Ill. 300), and the archaeological context of the latter example as much as stylistic considerations suggest the later eleventh and early twelfth century for its currency. It occurs also on Romanesque tympana, as at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire (Keyser 1927, fig. 10), and most significantly in combination with the other motifs represented here, on Rowston 3 (Ill. 493). These supporting motifs appear individually or in combination quite commonly on Romanesque tympana – as for example interlocked circles and chevron at Cury, Cornwall (Keyser 1927, fig. 3), and interlinked semicircles at Bondleigh, Devon (ibid., fig. 106). Butler treated this as a 'slab' (1961, 148) or more precisely a grave-cover (1964, 131 fn. 3) of the period 1060–1120: but this characteristic combination of motifs, some of them with pre-Conquest affinities and often brought into irregular juxtaposition, favours the interpretation as a tympanum fragment of similar date.