The Saxon remains are a fragment of stone staircase and a piece of wall built in the ancient herring-bone fashion.

Marston is much older than the generality of Somerset churches and has the scanty remnants of "herring-bone" work in the outside wall of the chancel.

Herring-bones and a disorderly collection of dirty cups and platters graced the table.

They turned arches of wide span in brickwork; and they frequently laid in their walls at regular distances apart courses of brick on edge and courses of sloping bricks, to which antiquaries have given the name of herring-bone work.

There is herring-bone work at Elm and Marston Magna.

Note (1) on S. external wall, herring-bone masonry (cp.

She has been teaching me how to herring-bone.

The threads and picks are interwoven in two up, two down twill, directed to right and then to left, and thus forming a herring-bone pattern, or arrow-head pattern.

G is a "herring-bone" design on 24 threads and 4 picks, two units shown.