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Object type: Part of cross-shaft
Measurements: H. 67.3 cm (26.5 in); W. 38.1 < 40.6 cm (15 < 16 in); D. 15.2 < 16.5 cm (6 < 6.5 in)
Stone type: Coarse-grained, massive yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 203.1157-1159
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 208-209
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A (broad): The moulding on the right of this face is damaged; that on the left has a shallow incised cable. One large volute of a spiral scroll survives; its root is grounded on a broad flat plinth and the stems of the main scroll are median-incised. The spiral centres with a small petalled flower, and other stalks terminating in trilobed berry bunches fall stiffly through the spiral.
B (narrow): The root and the beginnings of a simple scroll with tangled stems, set on a fine double roll moulding.
D (narrow): Part of a simple scroll with tangled stems and trilobed berry bunches springing from a root grounded on a fine double roll moulding. On the lower volute the stems are interlaced and the berried stalks sprout upwards to cross with those hanging stiffly from the upper volute.
This seems to be the lowest portion of a shaft, of rather slab-like section. The cutting is deep and confident, and although the formula with plant-scroll on all faces ultimately derives from Hexham, the deep jungly scrolls without leaves and the three element buds are more closely linked with Jarrow work (no. 2). The tangled composition is typical of the first half of the ninth century, a period of swift developments dominated in Northumbria by Deiran styles (Introduction, pp. 15-16; Cramp 1978a, 8-13).
