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Object type: Monolithic shaft and cross-head, set in modern base
Measurements: H. 133.3 cm (52.5 in); W. (at base) 45.6 cm (18 in); D. 28 cm (11 in)
Stone type: Coarse-grained, massive yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 253.1385-1386, 254.1387-1388
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 247
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The head of the cross is a form of hammer head, type A6, with a curving upper arm. There are no edge mouldings.
A (broad): Carved in relief in the cross-head is another cross, type E10.
B and D (narrow): Plain.
C (broad): Worn, but apparently plain.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
This is the only cross with this head type in Northumberland and may have been influenced by the late crosses of the north-west group like Middlesmoor (Collingwood 1927, 90-2, fig. 112). Several of the hammer-head type carry relief crosses on the head (ibid., fig. 116), but usually these are developments of the `spine and boss type'. Collingwood is probably correct in seeing this as an eleventh-century type. The lack of ornament tends to put it after the middle of the century.
