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Object type: Part of plain cross-shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 68 cm (26 in); W. 39.5 > 34 cm (15.5 > 13.25 in); D. 17.5 > 16 cm (6.75 > 6.25 in)
Stone type: Fine-grained pinkish sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 245.1362-1363
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 243
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The shaft is edged with a wide roll moulding and a flat-band moulding of equal width.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Such plain shafts could well be associated with the ring-headed crosses of a late type. (Such a ring-head is reconstructed on the market cross.) These ring-heads could be as late as c. 1100. However, the plain shaft could be pre-Conquest.
