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Object type: Fragment of cross-shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 27.5 cm (10.8 in); W. 27.5 cm (10.8 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Fine-grained, brownish-yellow (2.5Y 6/4) sandstone; see no. 1.
Plate numbers in printed volume: 431
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 127-128
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A fragmentary section of a cylindrical shaft. The lower portion is dressed but undecorated. Above is a narrow roll moulding encircling the shaft, surmounted by another, the two containing a horizontal band of simple twist; the strands are humped in section.
The fragment is from the central part of a round shaft, a form of monument described as a 'staff rood' by Collingwood (1927, 5–7) and associated with Anglian crosses, usually to the west of the Pennines. This piece is a perfect round shaft, not one of the many Yorkshire round-shaft derivatives, and its simple encircling band is a formalized version of the rope-like elements of the shafts at Beckermet, Cumberland (Bailey and Cramp 1988, 54–7). Hitherto, the round shaft had not been considered as a type found in eastern Yorkshire. Derivatives such as Middleton 3 may have depended upon such a model.
