Jedburgh Queen Mary's House Cross Stone

Canmore 57024 . 9th Century. Above the three basal mouldings are panels with zoomorphic and interlace motifs carved in relief, now very worn. Face A is carved with a bush scroll with a deeply incised central stem running from a chunky base root almost to the top of the stone. It has two pairs of scrolls, the lower pair curving downwards and the upper pair curving upwards. Birds are perched in the upper pair, both facing left.. The lower scrolls curve around two confronted horses and enmesh their legs. Face B is badly damaged but there is a quadruped on the left and another on the right, making a confronted pair, with their forelegs braced against one another. The head and neck of the left-hand animal, arches backwards and has the end of its tail in its mouth. There is another pair of smaller animals between the first pair, possibly suckling foals. Face C is very badly damaged but there are traces of a single animal facing left, its legs enmeshed in plant stem. Face D bears two confronted quadrupeds.