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Object type: Part of shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 45 cm (17.7 in); W. 25 > 23.5 cm (9.8 > 9.2 in); D. 16 > 15 cm (6.3 > 5.9 in)
Stone type: Sandstone, buff to pale brown, medium to coarse grained, quartzise and quartz cemented. Upper Carboniferous, local Millstone Grit Group. [G.L.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 399-402
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 179-80
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Part of a tapering cross-shaft of rectangular section. All edges are edged with a heavy-looking cable moulding. The carving is shallowly incised but is still sharp.
A (broad): A continuous double-stranded three-cord plait.
B (narrow): There is a single strand which follows a meandering line along the length of the shaft and through which other, actually detached strands, lace — giving an effect of a more complex half-pattern interlace, perhaps in imitation of the half-pattern A on face D of Kildwick 4.
C (broad): The strands here are double as on face A, forming a simple twist lacing through one complete and two partial loose rings.
D (narrow): This seems to be a double-stranded twist with a disconnected crossing in the centre of every twist, as if in imitation of a more complex pattern, perhaps a plait.
This is a very interesting piece, in that it shows an awareness of a particular tradition: in its cable-moulded edges even rather early and fine examples of that tradition. Its patterns on two faces (and possibly on all four) are however impressionistic imitations of more accurate interlace and twists, and its immediate sources are possibly even Kildwick 4 and 5 from the same site.
