As Collingham 3

This is not clearly described before Collingwood 1912, but it is likely to have been found either in the 1840s, or possibly in the later 1870 restoration (see also Collingham (St Oswald) 1 and 2).

St Oswald

Now broken in two pieces. There is a vertical split, not shown by Collingwood, so that face C is now separated from face A.

A thin rectangular slab, too short to determine if there was a taper. It could be the lower part of a cross- shaft, however, suggested by the plain area below the decorated face on all three surviving carved faces.

A (broad): This face is incomplete on the left. It shows, from the top, one curve from probably a large-scale, double-stranded interlace pattern, with below, but on the same plane, a narrow border formed from a horizontally disposed interlace. The left-hand edge is damaged, so it cannot be determined whether the interlace terminated, as Collingwood (1915a, 160, fig. o) indicates, or continued in some way on the missing face D. It is a double-stranded three-cord plait.

B (narrow): At the top are traces of carving, perhaps the termination of a straight-line pattern. Below is a border similar to that on face A, formed from a horizontally disposed three-cord plait, this time single-stranded.

C (broad): The decoration at the top is irrecoverable. The lower border is again a three-cord single-stranded plait with a terminal loop at the left; the right-hand edge is incomplete.

D (narrow): Hacked away, except for one element of an incised loop similar to the pattern on face A.

This is the same stone type as Collingham 3 and 5, and the proportions mean it is possible that this is the base of Collingham 3, with face A here the base of face C on Collingham 3. The horizontal band of interlace at the base suggests a further simplification of the 'round-shaft derivative', as seen in Collingham 1 above.

Late ninth to tenth century

Collingwood 1912, 128; Collingwood 1915a, 160–1, figs. o–q on 160; Collingwood 1927, 159, fig. 188o–q

[1] The following are general references to the Collingham stones: Browne 1880–4a, lxxiv; Browne 1885c, 157; Allen 1887, 85; Allen 1890, 293; MacMichael 1906, 359–60; Morris 1911, 155; Pevsner 1959, 20, 165–6; Faull 1981, 212, 218; Ryder 1991, 19; Ryder 1993, 17, 147; Cambridge 1995b, 144n, 145.