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Object type: Part of cross-socket
Measurements:
H. 32 cm (12.5 in); W. 60 cm (23.5 in); D. 56 cm (22 in)
Socket: W. 26.5 cm (10.25 in); D. 25.5 cm (10 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained red sandstone (St Bees sandstone)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 609
Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 161
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Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
This piece is so incomplete that it is impossible to be certain of its date, but it is so obviously water worn that it could well be one of the pieces recovered from the submerged church site. It is possible that this was the 'stoup' in which '. . . the whole of one side and the base have broken away . . .', mentioned as recovered in 1913 (Gordon 1914, 335–6), but see no. 7. It may have belonged to the 'Cumbrian type' of shallow base in which the shaft passed right through the socket (cf. no. 4).
