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Object type: Part of cross-shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 69.6 cm (27.4 in); W. 32.8 > 22.5 cm (13 > 8.9 in); D. 18.2 > 16.6 cm (7.2 > 6.5 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained, calcareous, very pale brown (10YR 8/3) sandstone; probably Middle Calcareous Grit, Coralline Oolite Formation, Middle Oxfordian, Upper Jurassic resembles material used near by at Middleton, Pickering, and Sinnington
Plate numbers in printed volume: 518-521
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 155-156
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A (broad): The lower part of the face is damaged. In the centre of the panel is an open pair of unpinned loops, the strand rising at the top to meet a rough transverse plain moulding. On this stands the lower half of a human figure, the feet turned to the left; remains of a kirtle and belt are obscured by damage. On the left is a vertical sword with straight guard and trilobed pommel. All the cutting is with the punch, and clumsy. The loop intrudes upon the edge moulding at one point.
B (narrow): The edge moulding is flat and plain and several inches above the base turns in a low arch across the face of the stone. Within the panel are irregular interlocked L-shaped elements, decreasing in size as they proceed up the shaft. This may be seen as a form of straight line pattern, or as a crude three-strand plain plait executed in stopped-plait technique.
C (broad): Very worn and scabbled. The flat edge moulding returns across the top of the fragment.
D (narrow): The lower section is undecorated. A roughly incised line forms flat edge mouldings at each side, terminating in a scroll. The panel is filled with woven, curved elements which make up debased interlace in stopped-plait technique; the pattern is indecipherable.
This is unassured work but in the tradition of the warrior portraits so common in Yorkshire in the Anglo-Scandinavian period. Middleton is not distant, and Kirkbymoorside 1 may have provided a model. The debased, stopped-plait elements are found on Kirkdale 3 (Ill. 552) and the hogback, Helmsley 1 (Ill. 478). It is an indication of poor quality rather than period, or perhaps even one sculptor's hand. The arched moulding below the stopped-plait is similar to the layout of Kirkdale 3.
