GALPR/15

Macalister/1949, 76--77: `A square, originally surrounded by a key pattern on three sides -- that on the sinister side, as well as the sinister half of the bottom, is worn to evanescence. Outside this, on the dexter side, at the top, there is a rectangular panel containing a guilloche; traces show that there was a similar panel in the corresponding place on the sinister side, now broken and worn away. Inside the square there is an equal-armed cross: a singular feature of the design is the suppression of the dexter boundary-line of the vertical limbs. The horizontal limbs bear what seem to me the simple plait shewn in the diagram: though it is easy to imagine serpents' heads and other complications in some of the worn parts. The upper sinister canton contains a figure of a horned bovine animal grazing: the lower sinister canton has a rather grotesque crucifix: with kneeling angels supporting the Head of the Figure on the Cross. The lower dexter canton has a serpent twisted into a knot: the upper dexter panel has a medley of human figures, evidently intended to imitate the knotted human figures on some of the High Crosses, such as that of Monasterboice. On the vertical shaft there is a similar medley, interwoven with serpentine figures: at the bottom there is a `sheelanagig''.