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Object type: Part of cross-shaft
Measurements: Unobtainable
Stone type: (after Sheppard 1909) Carboniferous sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: 749-750
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 198-199
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Only two faces had visible carving, both photographed in Sheppard 1909. It was the base of a shaft.
A (broad): A damaged and worn, broad edge moulding appears to have been cabled. The base of the face had a plain plinth. The interior of the panel is very worn. It may have had an inner moulding at each side, flanking a pair of crossing stems terminating in rounded berry bunches.
B (narrow): The edge moulding was bold and cabled. The face had a plain plinth of some depth. Within the panel was a plant-scroll stemming from the lower left-hand corner. Part of the simple scroll survived with a drop leaf and terminating in a flamboyant leaf-flower.
C (broad) and D (narrow): Presumably recut.
Such a Classical scroll is a rarity in the East Riding. The nearest parallel lies across the Wolds and the Vale of Pickering at Hackness 1 (Ills. 454, 459), and, to a lesser extent, Gilling East 1 (Ill. 440). Its appearance is organic and more susceptible to gravity than at Hackness, however. The carboniferous sandstone demonstrates that the monument was imported into Holderness (see Chap. 3).
