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Object type: Fragment of a cross-head
Measurements: H. 7 cm (2.75 in); W. 14 cm (5.5 in); D. 8 cm (3 in)
Stone type: As Keynsham 2, with calcite veinlets. Bath stone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 289-90
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 166-7
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This seems to be part of the arm of a crosshead with a curving end.
A (broad): A knot with pointed terminals and medianincised strands (1.5 cm wide) is framed by a curving rounded strand or moulding and a wide flat band.
E (top): A double moulding and traces of interlaced strands survive. There is a patch of hard white substance that could be paint or lead which cuts the pattern. (This, according to Cottle and Lowe, plugs a hole.)
All other faces are broken.
If this is, as suggested, part of a cross-head then it could have been part of Keynsham 3 since the interlace is of a similar type. Such fan-armed heads are typical of this region (see Bath 3 and 4, and Bradford-on-Avon 2: Ills. 173–4, 175–6, 400; also introduction, p. 36, and Fig. 18).
