Christian Monuments of Wiltshire. 53 



knots 1 (Fig. 3) at the top and bottom. The bands forming the 



Fig. 3. 



knot at the top do not seem to join up properly. 



Upon two of the stones at Ramsbury [the cross-shaft (B) and the 

 coped stone (E)] are excellent examples of the figure-of-eight knot^ 

 arranged in double rows^ (Fig. 4). This is one of the commonest knots 



Fig. 4. 



made use of in Hiberno-Saxon ornament, because it can be so easily 

 derived from a four-cord plait by making breaks along the centre of 

 the plait at every third crossing-poiat of the cords.* A double row 



» Knot No. 50, " Analysis," p. 239. This knot is frequently used as the 



termination of any pattern derived from a four-cord plait and also on the arms 



of cross heads, as at Brompton and Northallerton in Yorkshire. 



2 "Analysis," p. 242, knot G. 



3 Ibid, p. 254, pattern No. 140. 



* lUd, p. 236, Fig. 35. 



