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Object type: Part of grave-marker [1]
Measurements: L. 40.6 cm (16 in); W. 19 cm (7.5 in); D. 15.2 cm (6 in)
Stone type: Very fine-grained, non-micaceous, pale yellow (2.5Y 8/4) sandstone; deltaic channel sandstone, Saltwick Formation, Aalenian, Middle Jurassic; possibly from Aislaby, near Whitby (see Fig. 5).
Plate numbers in printed volume: 464-465, 467-470
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 141
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The pre-Conquest decoration lies on the underside of the Romanesque base. It is smoothly dressed and carries a finely incised long stemmed cross of type B9 with slightly concave ends. The lower vertical limb glides smoothly into the stem.
The monument closely resembles, in form and cross shape, the two at Wensley, North Riding (Collingwood 1927, 13, fig. 17b–c) but its austerity is akin to the restrained ornament of many of the crosses from Whitby, North Riding (Peers and Radford 1943, 36, fig. 1). This connection is not surprising bearing in mind the links between Hackness and Hild's monastery. The cross form more closely reflects the three dimensional Whitby crosses rather than those on the grave-markers from Hartlepool, co. Durham, and Lindisfarne, Northumberland. It is, nonetheless, of the same genre. Only at York Minster do incised crosses occur elsewhere in the area of this volume.
