A cabled horizontal moulding encircles this rapidly tapering cylindrical shaft. Above the moulding is the lower part of a scroll decoration which ran round the whole of the surviving cylinder. Main stems fall both vertically and at an angle; there are spiralling shoots, angular stems, loose pellets, and both trefoil and round leaves in what was clearly a stripped and inorganic version of the theme.

Round-shaft, or possibly part of a column (see Chapter V, p. 33). It is likely that this encircling scroll decoration ran between two cabled-moulding borders. If so, the scroll band was both wider and more elaborate than most other bands on round-shafts in the area such as those from Wincle Grange 1 or Ilam in Staffordshire (Ills. 366–9; Brown, G. 1937, pl. C); in their original form, however, the 'Bow stones' (Disley Lyme Handley 1 and 2) may have offered a parallel (Ills. 162–70). In scale, the Astbury decorative collar more nearly approaches the broad bands of Macclesfield St Michael 4 or the Leek cross in Staffordshire; on the latter stone the band also tapers markedly like this example (Ills. 189–93; Kendrick 1949, pl. XLVI). Stripped and inorganic scrolls, with spiralling and angular stems, are a late development; they recur locally on Prestbury 1 (Ills. 230–7; see Bailey and Cramp 1988, 33–8).