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Object type: Cross-base
Measurements: L. 122 cm (48 in); W. 122 cm (48 in); H./D. 28 < 30.5 cm (11 < 12 in); Mortice 28 x 35.5 cm (11 x 14 in)
Stone type: Coarse-grained granite with feldspar megacrysts up to 2.5 by 0.5 cm forming about 70% of the rock set in an equidimensional mix of white feldspar and quartz crystals mostly less than 1 cm across; a few of the quartz crystals range up to 1.5 cm. There is some tourmaline intergrowth with crystals up to 5 mm across, together with fragments of white mica up to 3 mm across. Bodmin Moor Granite
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 280
Corpus volume reference: Vol 11 p. 228
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Undecorated square cross-base
Appendix A item (stones of uncertain date)
The large size of the base suggests a substantial monument of possibly early medieval origin (see Chapter VI above, p. 63), or an unusually large later medieval wayside cross. The base has been included in the catalogue because of its possible association with the cross-shaft fragments Warleggan 1 and 2 (p. 209).
The base is undateable in its own right, but if it can be associated with Warleggan 1 and 2 it is likely to be of late tenth- to eleventh-century origin. On the other hand, if it was carved to support a wayside cross, then a twelfth- to thirteenth-century date may be indicated.
