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Object type: Part of shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 35 cm (13.8 in); W. max. 18 cm (7 in); D. 32 > 13 cm (12.6 > 5 in)
Stone type: Moderately sorted, pink to light red (7.5YR 7/4–2.4YR 6/6) feldspathic sandstone. Quartz clasts up to 1 mm, and sporadic dark metallic grains. Kinderscout Grit or Ashover Grit, Millstone Grit Group, Carboniferous (R.T.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 46–7
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 125-126
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A (broad): Decorated with a stylised spiral plant-scroll which is slightly squared at the sides, top and bottom. It comprises a central ornament of a triple-leaf pattern with rounded leaves. The stone is too fragmentary to reconstruct the entire pattern but it appears to have formed a series of linked scrolls. To each side are wide rolled edge mouldings.
B (narrow): Filled with an incomplete interlace pattern apparently formed of two strands but which almost certainly extend to the right to form something more complex. To the left is a broad, rolled, edge moulding.
C (broad) and D (narrow): Inaccessible
This stone appears to be part of a cross-shaft. The pattern on A can be identified as a spiral plant-scroll, a stylised version of that found on Bakewell 1. The scroll is slightly squared, of which there are other examples in the region: at Brailsford (1), Leek (6B) and Stoke-on-Trent (1), all of which can be dated to the tenth century.
