In north-west corner of churchyard; the present plinth dates from 1887

First recorded in Todd's drawing of 1690 (Pennant 1771, 272)

St Andrew

Upper part of head lost; heavily worn on the two broad faces

Cross-head, type B9, with ring, type 1(a); rectangular shouldered shaft, type d. The head and all faces of the shaft are bordered by a roll moulding.

A (broad): Traces of interlace decoration on the head. Below, on the shaft, is further interlace decoration which Collingwood reconstructed as Como-braid; this detail is no longer clear. Immediately underneath, though with no panel division, is a worn Crucifixion scene with Sol and Luna above the arms of the cross. At the base of the panel is scrollwork organized in an inorganic manner.

B (narrow): Interlace, five registers of simple pattern F with long glides in a single full-length panel with drilled holes emphasizing the crossing points. The form of the lower terminal register is uncertain.

C (broad): No visible decoration now exists on the head or the upper part of the shaft. At the centre of the shaft is a heavily worn figure set within an arched and cabled frame. Beneath are traces of plait.

D (narrow): A stripped rendering of a running spiral scroll.

The outline of the cross indicates that it can be classified as a round-shaft derivative. Indeed its profile exactly matches that of the western shaft (no. 5) of the nearby 'Giant's Grave'. The placing of the figure on face C beneath an arched frame which is distinct from the border moulding follows a north-western pattern in the Viking period (see p. 00). The presence of Sol and Luna on the Crucifixion scene reflects earlier Anglian usage.

Tenth century

Pennant 1771, 272, fig.; Hutchinson 1776, 104–5, fig. on 105; Hutchinson 1794, i, 328, 332, fig. facing 308; Britton and Brayley 1802, 158; Lyttleton 1809, 50, fig. facing 48; Lysons and Lysons 1816, ccii; Rose 1832, III, 153, fig. facing 152; Jefferson 1840, 66, pl. 58; Allen 1878, fig. on 358; Simpson 1874, 11, 12; Allen 1885, 354; 'Ewanian' 1894, 44–6, figs. on 45; Calverley 1899a, 248, 251–2, 300, pl. facing 248; Collingwood 1901a, 263; 265, pl. facing 263; Collingwood 1903a, 387; Collingwood 1913a, 172; Collingwood 1920, fig. facing 53; Scott 1920, 165; Collingwood 1922–3, 221; Collingwood 1923c, 225; Collingwood 1927a, 108, 146, fig. 162; Collingwood 1928c, 326; Kendrick 1941b, 17; Kendrick 1949, 76; Pevsner 1967, 16, 173–4; Bailey 1974a, I, 153–64, 378, 379, II, 213–14, pls.; Cramp and Douglas-Home 1977–8, 230; Coatsworth 1979, I, 258–61, II, 39, pls. 123–4; Bailey 1980, 77, 78, 148, 152, 264, fig. 9; Firby and Lang 1981, 23; Dodwell 1982, 113; Bailey forthcoming a