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Object type: Shaft with plate-ringed cross-head
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 376
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Heavily weathered shaft with a plate-ringed cross-head, standing in the churchyard to the south-east of the church on a two-tiered base. The shaft is square in cross section. There are possible traces of interlace on the lower part of the south face and on the western face. The other two faces are heavily 'rusticated'. All four edges of the shaft have been cut back below the carved surface to form sunken, or rebated square-section edge mouldings. The cross-base is octagonal. Its upper tier is regular in plan, the lower tier rather more irregular. Both are carved from fine-grained sandstone (Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation, Sherwood Sandstone Group, middle Triassic).
It has been thought that this cross might be Anglo-Saxon (Pevsner 1968, 156), but a note published in 1977 makes it clear that the cross was freshly quarried in 1915 at Hasbury quarry by Mr Harry Moare and presented to the church by Mrs H. T. Nack (Taylor, R. 1977). Other circumstantial evidence, such as the fact that the cross does not appear in nineteenth-century illustrations of the site (e.g. Birmingham Museum no. P41'67-1), seems to leave little room for doubt.
