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Object type: Fragment
Measurements: (based on the scaled photograph) H. c. 17.5 cm (6.9 in); W. c. 18.6 cm (7.3 in); D. Not recorded
Stone type: Unobtainable
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 247-8
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 157
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As shown in the published photograph (Radford 1981, pl. XXIV, C) this appears to be the corner of a panel enclosed by a fine roll moulding, and at the base a row of billets. A spindly leg and three-clawed foot emerges from a loop of interlace and is crossed by a broad band of what could either be interlace or a reptilian body.
The form of this piece with the distinctive rectangular billets at the base, and the ornament with the spindly clawed foot enmeshed in interlace, is so like Glastonbury 5 (Ill. 239) that it must have been part of the same monument. Radford, in illustrating this piece, provides it with a tenth-century date but does not explain this. It is just as likely to belong to the early group of Mercian influenced animal and avine ornament, and indeed the thin grooved legs are very like those of the Colerne 'lions' (Ill. 436).
