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Object type: Part of shaft, in two pieces
Measurements:
a: H. 55 cm (21.7 in) W. 39 > 30 cm (15.3 > 11.9 in) D. 22.5 > 21.5 cm (8.9 > 8.5 in)
b:H. 58 cm (22.9 in) W. 38 > 37 cm (15 > 14.6 in) D. 22.5 > 21.5 cm (8.9 > 8.4 in)
Stone type: Coarse-grained slightly feldspathic sandstone, in part point dressed. Very pale brown (10YR 7/4). Deltaic sandstones from the Saltwick Formation, Aalenian, Middle Jurassic, possibly from the Aislaby Quarries in the valley of the river Esk
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 467–74
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 154
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A (broad) : Only a little of the plain edge moulding survives but it can be seen extended laterally along the top and bottom of the panel. The moulding has a squared section. The panel contains botched, free-hand closed circuit interlace in a broad flat strand in a six-cord plait.
B (narrow) : The edge mouldings are flat and plain. The panel contains a bold meander fret of two interlocked adjacent strands. The strands are flat and broad.
C (broad) : One plain edge moulding survives on the left. The panel contains a damaged run of bold clumsily cut closed circuit interlace in median-incised strand. The strand is broad and angular. Very damaged.
D (narrow) : Dressed off.
This is an amateurish piece, its closed circuit interlace unplanned and executed in a free-hand manner. The meander fret is ingenious, however, and represents a new-found taste for this kind of ornament in tenth-century Yorkshire.
