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Object type: Part of cross-shaft, in two pieces
Measurements:
a (upper): H. 55 cm (21.5 in); W. 39 cm (15.25 in); D. (after Calverley 1899a) 15 cm (6 in)
b (lower): H. 64 cm (25.25 in); W. 38.5 cm (15.25 in); D. (after Calverley 1899a) 15 cm (6 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained red sandstone (St Bees sandstone)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 27, 29
Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 52
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The fragments form non-adjacent parts of the same cross-shaft, which had markedly slab-like proportions. No information is available about any ornament on the non-visible faces.
A (broad): A grooved moulding frames both long sides of fragment a and survives also on one side of fragment b. The bottom of the panel on fragment b is marked by an incised line, below which some 41 cm (16 in) of stone has been left undecorated for insertion into a socket or directly into the ground.
At the top of fragment a are two parallel rows of three-strand stopped-plait with pellets interspersed. The left-hand row breaks at the bottom of the fragment into spiral-scroll arranged in a swastika-like shape. What is presumably the continuation of the same panel on fragment b is covered with a similar kind of scroll.
Spiral-scroll school (Introduction, pp. 33–8).
