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Object type: Part of cross-head
Measurements: H. 21.5 cm (8.5 in); W. 44 cm (17.25 in); D. 22.4 cm (8.8 in)
Stone type: Coarse (slightly silicified?), very pale brown (10YR 7/4) biosparite limestone, rich in fossils (Exogyra and cidarid debris); Coralline Oolite Formation, Middle Oxfordian, Upper Jurassic; probably from quarries in immediate vicinity.
Plate numbers in printed volume: 419-420
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 124
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Cross-head, arm type B10, with ring, type 1(a), set close to the arm-pits. Only one broad face is visible.
A (broad): The carving is thinly incised on the face of the cross-head. The arms are not identical in size and the workmanship is rough. A moulding is clumsily indicated by an incised contour line within the cross. In the centre is an incised circle. The ring is recessed slightly from the face of the cross and its section is convex. The arm-pits are gouged out.
B (narrow): The upper edge of the right-hand arm carries a T-shaped incision.
C (broad): Built in.
D (narrow): Broken away.
The piece is of poor quality and its decoration is unadventurous. The ringed form of the cross-head, and the circular, gouged arm-pits relate it to more accomplished monuments in Ryedale, for example, Middleton 1–2, which are attributed to the Anglo-Scandinavian period. It is reminiscent of the cross-head at Topcliffe, North Riding (Collingwood 1907, 407, fig. on 403).
Collingwood 1907, 299, fig. a on 296; Collingwood 1912a, 123; Morris 1931, 48; Pevsner 1966, 60
