On the right-hand side a narrow roll edge-moulding survives. At the base are two human figures, side by side, in identical postures and wearing splayed ankle-length kirtles; the feet point to the right. Their inner arms hang from rounded shoulders. The heads, with pointed chins and drilled eyes and mouth, are frontally presented.

Over each head is an arch (or halo?) which meets the edge of the rounded shoulders. Above them is a plain transverse moulding and above that a horizontal strip of very open three-strand twist, recently spalled. Above this is a square of modelled strand locked by a ring at each corner from which a saltire fills the panel, its intersection locked by another ring.

This is a fairly clumsy carving. The figures with splayed kirtles or skirts should be compared with the equally amateurish carving of Kirklevington 1 (Ill. 400). The pointed chins are a feature of Anglo-Scandinavian human figures, for example the hogback Sockburn 21 (Cramp 1984, 143–4, pl. 146, 767). They may be haloed saints in the manner of the threesomes from Aycliffe 1 and 3 (ibid., 41–3, 44, pls. 8, 27 and 11, 33). The horizontal twist is more openly arranged than in Collingwood's drawing.

[1] The following are general references to the Forcett stones: (—) 1880–9, civ; Hodges 1894, 195; (—) 1896–1905c, cxxxii; Morris, J. 1904, 156, 420; (—) 1909–10, 72; Morris, J. 1931, 158, 417; (—) 1934–6b, 137; Pevsner 1966, 163; Morris, C. 1976a, 142; Bailey 1980, 191; Welfare et al. 1990, 18.

[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 2: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 557 (Romilly Allen collection).