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Object type: Cross-head and part of shaft
Measurements: Unobtainable
Stone type: Medium-grained, massive yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 236.1335, 237.1336
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 239
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A (broad): The cross-head, type E8, is carved in one block with the shaft, which is plain and without edge mouldings. The head is carved from a solid round plate with the arms in high relief. The arms are short and the central roundel is plain.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Heads of the plate type are commonly found on crosses and grave-markers in the Saxo-Norman overlap period, although the arm types can vary between E8 or 6 and B6, as on Warden 5 or Woodhorn 3.
