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Object type: Cross-socket or possibly a shaft(?)
Measurements: H. 63.5 cm (25 in); W. 39.5 > 38 cm (15.5 > 15 in); D. 20.5 > 16 cm (8 > 6.25 in)
Stone type: As Whitcombe 1
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 144-6
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 124-5
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A (broad): Part of the top has been chipped away and the base has a long hole cut out of it. One panel of carving survives, set in a double incised frame squared at the top and arched below. This encloses a large closed-circuit knot with pointed terminals which is formed from a figure-of-eight and two pointed loops. The strands are wide and contoured. The interstices between the strands are filled with rather randomly placed triple or double hollowed petals or leaves, and in one place, at the bottom left, what could be interpreted as a bunch of grapes.
B (narrow): Traces of interlace in an incised border
C (broad): Cut away
D (narrow): Chiselled back
E (top): Roughly cut ?secondary socket, 15x10 cm (6x4 in) at top, tapering to 12.5x8 cm (5x3.25 in) at base
The style of cutting and the identical framing of the ornament suggest that this is part of the same monument as Whitcombe 1. The large broad-stranded knot and the scatter of small floral motifs would seem late, but this is rather inept shallow carving and difficult to parallel.
