The Corpus: Workington 05

Volume 2: Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire-North-of-the-Sands

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Current Display: Workington 05, Cumberland

Overview

Object type: Part of cross-head [1]

Measurements: (after Mason and Valentine 1928) H. 25.5 cm (10 in); W. 39.4 cm (15.5 in); D. c. 15 cm (6 in)

Stone type: Unobtainable

Plate numbers in printed volume: 597

Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 156

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Present Location

Lost

Evidence for Discovery

Found reused as backing for skewstone in arch of Curwen vault beneath church in 1926 (Mason and Valentine 1928, 62)

Church Dedication

St Michael

Present Condition

Unknown

Description

A (broad): The published photograph shows a free-armed cross of type B10 with an encircled flat boss at the centre. No other ornament is recorded.

Discussion

The relatively short arms suggest that this is a stone of the Viking period (cf. Beckermet St John 1, Brigham 5, Bromfield 1, and Distington 2).

Date

Tenth to eleventh century

References

Mason and Valentine 1928, 61–2, pl. facing 62; Curwen 1936, 207; Bailey 1974a, I, 77, II, 255, pls.

Endnotes

1. The Historica de Sancto Cuthberto records that the wandering Cuthbert community embarked for Ireland from Deruntmuthe in the late ninth century (Symeon 1882b, 207). Workington is at the mouth of the Derwent and is probably the place referred to here.