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Object type: Fragment of cross-shaft
Measurements: H. 20 cm (8 in); W. 13.4 cm (5.25 in); D. 10.2 cm (4 in)
Stone type: Coarse-grained, massive sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 229.1296-8
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 233
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Impossible to be certain which were originally narrow and which broad faces.
A: Part of two panels incomplete in width, enclosed in an outer roll moulding. (i) A fine inner roll moulding surrounds a two-strand twist. (ii) Part of a plain panel.
B: Roughly hacked, traces of mortar.
C: A double roll moulding enclosing a plain panel.
D: Part of a tapering panel enclosed in an outer roll and flatter inner grooved moulding with punched outline.
This piece has an unfinished appearance especially on face D where the base of the panel is not completed. Side B, which has traces of mortar, seems to indicate that the piece had been reused as a building stone, so that it is possible that it was never used as a cross. There is nothing in the surviving ornament which can be used to assign it to a site. Crosses with plain panels are also found at Lindisfarne (nos. 2, 3, 6 and 8).
