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Object type: Fragment
Measurements: L. 27 cm (10.6 in) W. 15 cm (5.9 in) D. Built in
Stone type: Coarse grained, feldspathic gritstone; sub-angular grains, poorly sorted with quartzite pebbles up to 8mm in size. Yellow (10YR 7/6). Typical example of Millstone Grit (Namurian, Upper Carboniferous), a stone type typical of the High Pennine areas to the west of Catterick.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 118
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 81
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The stone has been recut as a building block, and the surviving decoration is a row of paired simple pattern E knots.
It is impossible to say what form of monument this was part of, but rows of pattern E knots are not uncommon: compare Hart 2, co. Durham (Cramp 1984, pl. 79, 399). The interlace although worn appears to have been well cut.
