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Object type: Fragment
Measurements: H. 30.5 cm (12 in); W. 25 cm > 11.5 cm (9.8 > 4.5 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Sandstone, buff coloured, medium to coarse grained, quartzose, quartz cemented. Local Pennine Lower Coal Measures Group. [G.L.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 50
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 105
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All that remains is an irregular pseudo-interlace or twist, incorporating either loose rings or attempts at figure-of-eight knots, in which several of the visible double-stranded elements seem to stop or cannot be shown to follow through. Enclosed within the 'glide' between knots, near the top, are two stopped, single-stranded elements, and a loose pellet, which may be an attempt at the trailing ends from a knot.
There is too little of the pattern to be definitive about its relationships. Irregular double-stranded interlace or twists are found across the northern half of the region, for example at Wighill (Ills. 766–8). The attempt at a knot with trailing ends could suggest influence from the major cross at nearby Leeds (no. 1Ai, Ill. 492), but this is a very clumsy work.
