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Object type: Fragment of ?slab
Measurements: (after Collingwood 1928) H. 20 cm (8 in); W. 25.5 cm (10 in); D. 15 cm (6 in)
Stone type: Unobtainable
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 389
Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 146
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The decoration appears to be incised. All that survives on the main face is an outer frame carrying a meander pattern within which is an inner frame of zigzag ornament. Above this double border are four vertical incised lines linked by angled herringbone incisions. To the right is a further, isolated, angled line with shorter lines emerging at right angles from it.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
This fragment may, as Collingwood'suggested, have been part of a slab. The seeming use of a meander pattern reflects a Viking-age ornamental preference, but the particularly close parallels from the Solway area at Kirkclaugh and Cross Canonby 4 suggest that this is probably work of the eleventh century or later (Collingwood 1927a, fig. 226; Bailey and Cramp 1988, ills. 222–3)
