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Object type: Cross-shaft fragment
Measurements: H. 18.5 cm (7.3 in); W. 19.1 cm (7.5 in); D. 9.4 cm (3.7 in)
Stone type: Oolitic limestone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 8-9
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 129
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None. An undated note from Percy Blair in the Romilly Allen collection attached a rough sketch of this fragment with the comment that it was in Berkeley church (London, British Library, Add. MS 37550, no. 502); the fragment must have been discovered before Romilly Allen's death in 1907.
Fragment with two faces decorated with median-incised interlace. The 'background' is cut back 1.5 cm (0.6 in), and there are traces of fine-pointed tooling on the background areas. Each face has a simple square-profile border 2 cm (0.8 in) wide.
A: Probably a six-strand, median-incised interlace with diagonal strands and asymmetrical loops within a surrounding loop.
B: Small fragment of median-incised interlace.
This lost fragment was part of a cross-shaft. The decoration is well executed and carefully laid-out. In this area, this is probably indicative of a ninth-century rather than later date.
