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Object type: Cross-head
Measurements: H. 62 cm (24.4 in); W. 62 cm (24.4 in) (head), 34 cm (13.5 in) (at bottom of head); D. 10 cm (4 in) (min.), 13.5 cm (5.4 in) (at bottom of head)
Stone type: Pinkish grey (5YR 8/1), fine-grained, megacrystic granite. White feldspars megacrysts up to13 mm across form about 20% of the rock; the feldspars and clear and milky quartz up to 7 mm across and a few scattered flakes of white mica are set in a fine-grained matrix. Fine-grained Bodmin Moor Granite. The two pieces, Lanteglos by Camelford 1 and Lanteglos by Camelford 2, have minor differences. Although the overall composition is similar, the colours are subtly different (obtaining a colour is not always an exact science as it can depend on weather conditions, whether in artificial or natural light etc.), and, more significantly, the size of the feldspar phenocrysts differ. They were not carved from the same block, but may well have come from differing parts of the same outcrop.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 136-7; fig. 18L
Corpus volume reference: Vol 11 p. 166-7
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Cross-head of type E6 with widely splayed arms and ring type b. Langdon's illustration shows part of a roll-moulding at the neck (Langdon, Arthur 1896, 169 and fig.). However this is not now visible since the cross-head is set in a modern base. There is no carved decoration on the monument.
A (broad): The ring, but not the cross-arms, has an incised edge-moulding. The triangular sinkings between the cross-arms each contain a small, low boss; there is also a boss at the intersection of the arms.
B and D (narrow): Plain
C (broad): As face A
See the discussion for Lanteglos by Camelford 1 above, where it is suggested that the two stones were originally part of one monument.
The head incorporates features seen on a typical Cornish ring-headed cross (central boss, four further bosses, wide-splayed arms, ring) but it is clearly derivative: unlike these, the features are all found on a solid, unpierced disc- or wheel-head and the bosses have been re-arranged so that they appear between rather than on the cross-arms. It can therefore be seen as later than these: but the careful execution and more elaborate layout suggests that, like Tintagel 1 (Ills. 224–6), it stands at the head of the series of far simpler Cornish wayside crosses, of which a good example in this area is the cross at Bossiney, Tintagel (Langdon, Arthur 1896, 98–9).
