Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland
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Current Display: Sockburn 12, Durham 
Overview
Object type: Cross-head [1]
Measurements: H. 84 cm (33 in); W. 76 cm (30 in); D. 17.8 cm (7 in)
Stone type: Fine-grained red sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 140.749-750
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 140
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Present Location
Conyers Chapel
Evidence for Discovery
First mentioned by Boyle (1892). See no. 1.
Church Dedication
All Saints
Present Condition
Broken and worn; perhaps unfinished
Description
Plain ring-head, type 2(b). The arms are basically A1 in shape, but the vertical ones are slightly splayed.
Discussion
Since this is uncarved and possibly unfinished, no conclusions can be drawn.
Date
Uncertain. Eleventh century(?)
References
Boyle 1892, 659; Knowles 1896-1905b, 118, no. 19, pl. facing 102; Hodges 1905, 238
Endnotes
1. The following are general references to the Sockburn stones: Surtees 1823, 249; Longstaffe 1858, 82; (—) 1869-79f, liv; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; (—) 1887c; Eastwood 1887, 347; Allen 1889, 229; (—) 1889-90b, 132; (—) 1899-1900a, 60; (—) 1903, xiii; (—) 1909-10c, 239; Collingwood 1927, 148, 166, 169; (—) 1951-6a, 213; Pevsner 1953, 211; Lang 1972, 235-6; Schmidt 1973, 68-77; Morris 1976, 144; Bailey 1980, 91.
