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Object type: Cross-shaft and part of cross-head
Measurements: H. 103 cm (40.75 in); W. 41 > 27 cm (16 > 10.5 in); D. 17 > 12 cm (6.75 > 4.75 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained red sandstone (St Bees sandstone)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 471 - 5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 134
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Slab-like cross-shaft with circle-head, type 3. All faces of the shaft are divided into two panels which are not, however, distinguished from each other by any border. The upper panel occupies most of the height of the shaft and is bordered laterally by a roll moulding; the lower panel is not clearly bordered laterally. Below the lower panel is an undecorated area, part of which is now inserted into a modern socket.
A (broad): A curved plain band separates the (now-lost) ornament on the head from the upper panel on the shaft, which is decorated with ring-chain (G.I., fig. 26 cvii) running the full length of the panel below a triquetra. The lower panel carries a step pattern of type 2.
B (narrow): Broad simple twist on the main panel and a step pattern of type 2 on the narrow lower panel.
C (broad): Broad six-strand plain plait on the main panel and step pattern of type 2 on the narrow lower panel.
D (narrow): Broad two-strand twist on the main panel and step pattern of type 2 on the lower panel.
On the basis of what remains on face C, the head can best be reconstructed as a circle-head; the layout of ornament on the broad faces, with its combination of long panels set over a narrow band of ornament, is certainly characteristic of the circle-head group (see Aspatria 1 and Dearham 1). The Borre-style ring-chain and the interlace are both worked in broad, flat strands which are used elsewhere in Viking-age carving in Cumbria (e.g. Kirkby Stephen 1).
