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Object type: Part of cross-shaft and -base (the `Legs Cross')
Measurements: H. (total) 258 cm (101.5 in); Shaft: H. 163 cm (64 in); W. 38 > 25 cm (15 > 10 in); D. 30 > 22 cm (11.75 > 8.75 in); Base: H. 95 cm (37.5 in); W. 70 cm (27.5 in); D. 49 cm (19.25 in)
Stone type: Coarse-grained, massive grey sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 108.596-597, 109.598-599
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 122
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A (east, broad): Part of four panels of interlace, divided by narrow flat mouldings. The details of the interlace are too worn to be decipherable.
B (north, narrow) and C (west, broad): Possibly panels of interlace.
D (south, narrow): Completely worn away.
This cross seems to be in its original position alongside the Roman road north from Piercebridge. It may have been some form of boundary cross (Introduction, p. 5). The squarish dimensions of the shaft, and the fine strand width and complexity of what one can see of the interlace, seem to suggest a ninth-century date.
