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Object type: Part of cross-head
Measurements: H. 37 cm (14.6 in); W. 40 cm (15.75 in); D. 12.4 cm (4.8 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: 421-422
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 124-125
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Only part of one broad face is visible.
A (broad): The cross-head, arm type D11, has arm-pits forming three-quarter circles, which are filled by recessed rudimentary billets. The cutting of the billets is rough and they are some way between billets and cylinders (G.I., fig. 3, 4–5). A well-modelled edge moulding is carried round the perimeter. In the centre is a worn, slightly domed boss, surrounded by a bevelled ring. Each arm carries this same motif, though only the one in the upper arm survives completely. Between the central and upper rings is a plain filler, and above the upper example are two addorsed motifs. Collingwood's drawing (1907, fig. b on 296) shows a filler with a volute above the left-hand ring but this is not now accessible.
B (narrow): Broken away. The sides of the upper arm carry incised lines forming the edge moulding.
C (broad) and D (narrow): Built in.
E (top): Worn and chipped.
The infill of the arm-pits may relate either to the plate-head crosses at Brompton, North Riding, or to the rarer billet-heads at Kirklevington, North Riding, (Collingwood 1907, 300, fig. e on 301; idem, 351, figs. c–d on 350), and Kirkdale (Ill. 546). This piece seems to be a compromise between the free-arm and ring-head crosses. The boss and ring motif derives from rivet covers in metalwork, suggesting a wooden and metal prototype; it is found elsewhere in Ryedale on the large Anglian cross-head, Lastingham 3 (Ill. 587). This cross might be an Anglian survival from the Anglo-Scandinavian period.
Collingwood 1907, 299, fig. b on 296; Collingwood 1912a, 123; Morris 1931, 48; Pevsner 1966, 60