Stone 2a. A fragment from a block originally decorated with interlace in low relief, although the pattern is now only understandable through the holes representing the interstices. The run of interlace represented appears to have been of four strands and included either free rings or figure-of-eight motifs (possibly simple pattern F). The interlace is offset within the present stone, but this may be due to recutting of the block.

Stone 2b. A fragment from a block decorated with interlace in low relief. The fragment includes evidence for a panel of interlace framed by an undecorated border of rectangular section. The border is much broader on one side and, on this side, it is decorated with a single incised line. Very little survives of the panel thus framed, but it was clearly filled with a large interlace pattern of which the evidence for two units is discernible.

The two fragments are associated here because they are made of similar stone and they were reused in proximity to each other. Both could have come from a single grave-cover of the mid-Kesteven type as they are of the stone type characteristic of this group (Chapter V). 2b, in particular, appears to retain a 'plinth' of the characteristic form shown by members of this group, whereas the interlace panel represented by 2a could have come from a number of positions on such a monument (Fig. 9). If these stones do represent a grave-cover of the mid-Kesteven group then a date between the mid tenth and early eleventh century is indicated.