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Object type: Shaft fragment
Measurements: H. 33 cm (13 in); W. 21 cm (8.3 in) (top) > 20 cm (7.9 in) (bottom); D. 8 cm (3.2 in)
Stone type: Sandstone, buff coloured, fine to medium grained, slightly micaceous. Local Pennine Lower Coal Measures Group. [G.L.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 51-2
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 105
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Only two faces are visible, and there is no record of other surviving decoration.
A (broad): This face is edged by flat mouldings. At the top is part of a panel of irregular, possibly animal interlace, incorporating two bifurcating strands and a loose ring. One strand low on the left side appears to be a snake-like head (upside down as it now is) with a round eye. Below there seems to be the start of another panel.
B (narrow): The moulding on the left is very damaged, that on the right (if the face is otherwise complete) has not survived. There seems to be a fragment of an upper border. The decoration consists of two and a half elements of meander type 2.
The animal interlace has the close-packed appearance of late shafts such as Aberford 1 (with which it shares the meander pattern, Ills. 1–4), Burnsall 2 (Ills. 89–92), and Otley 3 (Ills. 579–82). The loose rings, and the large-scale meander on face B are both indications of a late date.
