A (broad): Flanked by a surviving arris border to the right is a fragmentary panel of knotwork. This consists of two diagonalling strands with widely spaced free rings enclosing the crossings; one complete and one partial ring survive. As the strands cross the rings they are themselves bound by figure-of-eight twists (closed-circuit pattern F). The entire composition is worked in flat open strands.

B (narrow) and C (broad): Cut away

D (narrow): The heavily worn face may have carried some form of scroll.

Neat well-spaced knotwork based on closed circuits is not a familiar motif elsewhere in Cheshire, and its specific form here — a simple design which yields a seemingly complex pattern — seems to be unique in the English sculptural corpus. There are however analogous ring-based types in the Peak District area of Derbyshire and at Checkley in Staffordshire which are roughly contemporary and reflect similar tastes (Darley Dale, Norbury, Hope, Checkley: Kendrick 1949, pls. XLIX, L; Routh 1937, pl. XV). In discussing similar patterns — though of an earlier date — at Ramsbury in Wiltshire, Kendrick and Cramp both suggested that the type owed its origin to Mediterranean models (Kendrick 1938, 212; Cramp 2006, 229). The loose ring is a typical feature of Viking-age carving in the north.