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Object type: Cross-head or grave-marker
Measurements: H. 28.5 cm (11.25 in); W. 26.5 cm (10.5 in); D. 14.5 cm (5.75 in)
Stone type: Coarsegrained yellow/grey sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 255.1394-1397
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 248
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The cross is a plate-headed type with arms type B6.
A (broad): Although now very worn, there are indications that the arms were outlined by grooved mouldings. In the centre of the head is a boss surrounded by a raised ring.
B and D (narrow): Roughly dressed.
C (broad): A similar cross outlined by grooved mouldings. There is, however, no trace of a boss in the centre.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Cross-heads of this shape are more likely to have been the head- and foot-stones of slab-covered graves than the tops of free-standing crosses. A pair of such stones which closely parallel this piece was found in situ in the Whitby excavations, at the head and foot of a grave covered by a plain slab. It is probable that this grave was post-Conquest (see Pl. 263, 1424).
