Casgliadau Arlein

A sculpted cross-shaft once forming the lower section of a composite pillar cross. It consists of a four-sided slab, with a weathered socket in the top to take the cross-head. Each face bears a vertical decorated panel (each much weathered), recessed between bulbous angle mouldings; the upper edges have traces of ring-and-pellet decoration. A. (E. face): 1. Latin inscription (weathered); 2. band of irregular plain interlace, merging into; 3. distorted triangular key-pattern, apparently forming two pairs of crosses. terminated by a lower border of plain double-beaded moulding. B. (S. side): 1. double-looped knot separated by a moulded border from; 2. panel of six-strand interlace; 3. the lower half of the panel is indecipherable. C. (W. face): this panel seems to have been subdivided into three, but is too weathered to decipher, apart from traces of irregular interlace at the top. D. (N. side): 1. moulded border, beneath which is a looped knot; 2. panel of irregular six-strand interlace; 3. indecipherable.