Showing in west and north faces of pillar. See no. 1.

Raine (1852) records that about eighteen fragments of sculpture found by Mr. Gilly in 1833 in investigating foundations of building in churchyard a few paces from east end of present church. Fragments built up into pillar by time of note in (-) 1869-79c, and possibly before Stuart (1867), whose plates show only faces now visible [1]. Pillar originally in churchyard: Allen and Browne 1885, 351; (-) 1889-90d, 243; Tomlinson 1891, 551. Removed indoors c. 1891: (-) 1891-2b, 49-54; Hodges 1893, 85. Very few fragments described before Stuart.

St Cuthbert

Unworn

Arm, type D9.

A (broad): The head is edged by a fine double roll moulding which encloses a panel of turned pattern F with outside strands and U-bend terminals. The strands are lightly median-inciscd. It was possibly a surrounded pattern.

D (narrow): The complete end of the cross-arm contains a plant trail springing from a three-element root. Falling from the trail are three leaf-flowers, with flattened rounded buds and down-pointed leaves.

Heads with arms of this shape with interlace in both faces are found in an earlier form at Lindisfarne, but the interlace type of this head is closer to Deiran pieces such as Lastingham (Collingwood 1927, fig. 133). The pattern is similar to Norham 10 and 12. The shape of the leaf-flowers is closely paralleled on shaft 4 and at Masham, Yorkshire. In view of the difference in stone it is unlikely that this is the head of 4, although it is possibly very close in date.

Second quarter of ninth century

Stuart 1867, 20-1, pl. xxvii, 6; Adcock 1974, 1889, pl. 68A; Cramp 1978a, 12, pls. 1-3

1. Those faces which are cemented into the pillar cannot be described but some descriptions can be based on earlier illustrations