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Object type: Fragment of a panel
Measurements: Unobtainable
Stone type: Unobtainable
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 251
Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 157-8
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A: Only one face of this fragment has been recorded: this shows a plain panel with a corner surround composed of smaller squared panels in which individual diagonal key patterns are flanked by fine roll mouldings.
Key patterns are less frequent in Anglo-Saxon than Welsh, Irish or Pictish sculpture but are found in Southumbria (see for example Bradford-on-Avon 5 in this region, Ill. 407). This particular type also occurs at Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire (Cramp 1977, fig. 54a), but is more common in manuscripts. A near parallel is to be found in decoration of the initial in BL Cotton MS Tiberius C.II, fol. 5v (Alexander 1978, no. 33, ill. 165), where in other panels the interlace types are also interestingly like those on Glastonbury 1 and 3. The relationship of the piece to manuscript art both in its panelled layout and its decorative motifs is therefore noteworthy.
