A section from what was probably a large grave-cover, decorated with interlace in low relief on the only visible face.

A (broad): The surviving face comprises a rectangular panel with a double cable moulding along one border. The panel is decorated with a run of four-strand plait (motif xi, Fig. 10) which terminates within the fragment with box points at either end. The interlace strand is quite narrow and of rectangular section. At one end of the surviving fragment is a cut but undecorated surface, which may have originally formed part of an undecorated border.

At first sight it is not easy to understand how the decoration of this piece works; indeed the way the runs of interlace lie at right angles has clearly led previous observers to believe that more than one stone was present. This is not the case, and the best explanation seems to be that this is part of the long side of a large flat-topped cover of mid-Kesteven type (see discussion in Chapter V). Several features of the decoration support this view. The two horizontal runs of interlace of unequal size and different form separated by a cabled rib are paralleled at Lincoln St Mary-le-Wigford 2 (Ill. 271) and elsewhere. The presence of plain fillets on either side of the cable moulding is unusual within the known range of mid-Kesteven covers, but a single plain fillet is found at Coleby and St Mary-le-Wigford 2, for example. The other section of interlace then becomes a vertical panel at one end of the side (see Fig. 9). Interlace with medial incised line is characteristic of the monument type and its form could be read as two examples of motif ii (Fig. 10) linked together.