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Object type: Part of cross-shaft
Measurements: H. 45.7 cm (18 in); W. 16.5 > 15 cm (6.5 > 6 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Coarse-grained orange/red sandstone (Penrith sandstone)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 350
Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 115
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Rectangular cross-shaft. The only visible face carries one complete and two fragmentary registers of simple pattern F bordered on one side by a flat-band moulding. The intersections of the strands are emphasized by drilling.
There is little that is chronologically diagnostic about this fragment, which probably came from the top of a shaft. The pattern is a common one in both Anglian- and Viking-period sculpture though the drilled emphasis given to the interlace is a local fashion of the tenth and eleventh century seen, for example, on Beckermet St John 3, Gosforth 1 and Penrith 2.
