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Object type: Part of a cross-arm
Measurements: H. 12.5 cm (5 in); W. 16 < 17.5 cm (6.25 < 7 in); D. 12 cm (4.75 in)
Stone type: Yellowish grey (5Y 7/2), medium-grained, matrix-supported, sparsely shelly oolite. Ooliths 0.3 to 0.6 mm diameter, but mostly in the range 0.4 to 0.5 mm; most weather out to give 'aero-chocolate' texture, but a few stand proud. Shell fragments mostly platy, subangular to sub-rounded, and up to 2.5 mm across. There is a median shelly layer with shells up to 10 mm. Bath stone (but quite shelly), Chalfield Oolite Formation, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 181-2
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 141-2
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Only one carved face survives and this is sub-triangular, outlined by a flat-band moulding which encloses a knot of median-incised interlace (c. 2 cm wide). The two faces which form the triangle are dressed smoothly and so it appears to have been cut to this shape. One face has traces of a roll and the other traces of the background for paint.
Although this piece is so fragmentary, it seems to be the tip of a cross-arm (see Hinton and Cunliffe 1979, 140), and related to the other more complete examples.
