238 Description of the Crosses 



drawn over the left shoulder and upper arm and across the back, 

 the long end falling down over the right shoulder and reaching 

 nearly to the ankle. 



North Face} 

 This face of the shaft is divided into five panels of varying heights, 

 which are separated from one another by narrow borders. 



1. The top panel is filled by a vine-scroll. From a thick stem, 

 which starts in the middle of the base, the main vine curves first to 

 the right border, throwing off a spiral branch to the left, then to the 

 left border, making a spiral to the right ; and, recurving to the right 

 border, forms a finishing spiral to the left. Of the three spirals the 

 lowest is the largest and most elaborate, and is separated from the 

 others by a longer space than lies between the two upper ones. 

 At the foot of the vine on either side hangs a short-stemmed bunch of 

 fruit. From below each of the spirals stretches a shoot from the main 

 vine, which, twined across the spiral, emerges above it, and ends in 

 fruit or foHage. The spiral branches also end in fruit and fohage, 

 which fill the interstices of the other carving. 



2. The next panel is quite small, and filled with an intricate 

 pattern of interlacing. 



3. A long panel, nearly the height of the first, is entirely filled 

 with chequer-work, every other division being in relief. There are 

 eight square spaces between side and side, four of which are in reUef ; 

 and there are twenty-five from top to bottom. 



4. This panel is small, and filled with another pattern of inter- 

 lacing. 



5. The lowest panel is of the same height as the top one. From the 

 two lower corners emerge two vines, which come into contact with 

 each other twice, forming a symmetrical figure resembhng an urn, with 

 two spirals at its base, and two at the top. The right vine curves 

 toward and touches the left vine, then curves to the right border. 

 After again touching the left vine, it ends in a spiral and a bunch 

 of fruit in the right upper corner. The left vine repeats this in the 

 opposite direction. 



The borders between the panels originally contained runes, now 

 mostly undecipherable. The lowest, however, appears to bear the 

 word Cynnburug.'^ 



East Face? 



In the panel runs a vine-scroll from bottom to top. The main 

 vine starts in the middle of the base, and curves alternately to 



1 See Figs. 24, 25, 26. 



2 See p. 43, and Vietor, p. 16. 



3 See Figs. 27 28, 29. 



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