The cross motif emerges from the decoration, with the whole design often forming a rotated square or circular shape, though the designs are highly varied and inventive.

It has also been suggested that the wreathed cross motif also was the origin of the Celtic cross.

Windmills, a variation on the broken cross (swastika) motif, were sun symbols, the movement of the cross echoing the movement of the sun across the sky.

The transition is signalled by Scandinavian bracteates found in Kent that are stamped with cross motifs resembling the Lombardic crosses.

The dome is coffered with a cross motif, has a stained glass window in the oculus showing a cross.

This one is marked out in the floor mosaic Do you see the squared cross motif?

It is paved with light ochre stones, with two lines of darker stones forming a diagonal cross motif.

Another source of the motifs is thought to be Hindu-Buddhist, particularly the square cross motifs that may have alternatively been copied from Indian trade cloths.

Only one earspool survives; it is flat, in the form of a rounded square, and is decorated with a cross motif.

A particular design that appears on K'axob potteries is the cross motif.