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Object type: Fragment
Measurements: H. 21.5 cm (8.5 in); W. 16 cm (6.25 in); D. 12.5 cm (4.75 in)
Stone type: Yellowish grey (5Y 7/2), medium-grained, matrix-supported, very shelly oolite. Elongate shells up to 4 mm form up to about 10% of the rock. The ooliths, which vary in size from 0.4 to 0.6 mm, weather out to give an 'aero-chocolate' texture. Bath stone, Chalfield Oolite Formation, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 16-19
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 89
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It is uncertain which way up this piece should be viewed. It is surrounded by broad flat-band edge mouldings on the complete faces.
A (broad): Part of the moulding survives on three sides. The ornament is partly obliterated by mortar but seems to be a pattern E knot conjoined to a more intricate but indecipherable knot below.
B (narrow): Broad flat-band mouldings enclose two linked pattern E knots with median-incised strands.
C (broad): Broken at an angle, but part of the moulding survives enclosing traces of interlace.
D (narrow): Broken, but part of a dowel hole, which has been cut through at an angle, survives.
E (top but originally probably the base): Uneven, but some dressed surface survives.
F (base but originally probably the top): Flat and smoothly dressed.
It is difficult to know whether this is part of a panel at the top of a cross-shaft or part of the lower arm of the head, in which case this could have been dowelled into the shaft. It was once quite a handsome free-armed cross-head, with well cut median-incised interlace.
