The lower part of the shaft is in Lyme Hall courtyard; the remaining fragments, together with the upper arm Disley (Lyme Hall) 4, are now kept in a box awaiting conservation.

See Disley (Lyme Hall) 1a-b above.

The lower part of the shaft is now damaged at the top, where the surviving portion of the cross-head shown in early illustrations has been broken away. This is shattered into several fragments, four of which still carry decoration.

Cross-shaft of type g/h, with head of type E with fan-shaped (penannular) terminals. See Allen 1895, fig. on 150, for a drawing of the monument's form in the late nineteenth century. The following description assumes that the surviving fragments have been restored to their late nineteenth-century state.

A (broad): The face is divided into two panels which are bordered laterally by a cable moulding which curves at the bottom to form the swag of a type g shaft. At the top it curves to a point within the cross-head. The two panels are divided by a plain moulding. The upper panel carries a plait, which narrows from four to three cords as a result of two of the strands joining, whilst the lower is decorated with two interlinked closed-circuit loops. The fragmentary lower arm of the cross-head carries the stub of a ring originally connecting the arms of the cross.

B (narrow): The single panel, with cabled borders and swag, carries a three-strand plait.

C (broad): The single panel has cabled borders, pointed top and swag as on face A. It carries a four-strand plait.

D (narrow): The single panel, with cabled borders and swag as on face B, is decorated with a type 2 meander pattern; there is now no trace of the median-incised strands drawn by Allen 1895.

Round-shaft (see Chapter V, p. 33, and Disley (Lyme Hall) 1 above). Though smaller in size, it is closely related to Disley Lyme Hall 1 in the overall shaping of the shaft and head, and in its decorative combinations. The interlinked loops recurs within the round-shaft group at Alstonefield, Chebsey and Ilam (Pape 1945–6, 30, 31, 32, 34); like the meander pattern, which is found in median-incised form on Lyme Hall 1, it is a characteristic Viking-age motif.

Late tenth or eleventh century

(See Disley (Lyme Hall) 1 above); (—) 1848, 337; Finney 1871, 42; Renaud 1876, 144; Earwaker 1877–80, II, 101, 313, fig. on 312; Allen and Browne 1885, 355; Browne 1887b, 150–2, 156; (—) 1888b, 319; Allen 1894, 4, pl. VI; Allen 1895, 135, 150, fig. on 150; Cox, J. 1904, 57; Andrew 1905, 208, 210; Browne 1910, 284; (—) 1911, 216–17; (—) 1912a, 237; (—) 1914, 264, 267; Phelps 1919, 99; Collingwood 1926a, 329; Kendrick 1941b, 12; Green, C. 1941–2, 119; Pape 1945–6, 26, 39, 46, 48; Sylvester and Nulty 1958, 14; Bu'lock 1960b, 52; Bu'lock 1972, 84; Marshall 1975, 67–8, 69, fig. 17; Plunkett 1984, I, 145, 149, 163, II, 284, 296, 379, fig. 30b; Thacker 1987, 291, fig. 40; Edwards, B. 1992, 58; Sidebottom 1994, 116, 118, 121, 139, 148, 153, 154, 258, and pls.; Bailey 1996b, 42; Crosby 1996, pl. 16; Austin 1999, 81; Sharpe 2002, 104–6, fig. on 104; Bailey 2003, 235

[1] The following are unpublished manuscript references to the Disley Lyme Hall stones: BL Add. MS 37547, items 700–2 (Romilly Allen collection). Possible additional reference: Manchester Public Library, Hibbert Ware S. MSS: Msf 091 H21, vol. 5, 85