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Object type: Grave-cover [1]
Measurements: L. 179 cm (70.5 in); W. 47 > 36.4 cm (18.5 > 14.3 in); D. 22.8 cm (9 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained, micaceous, very pale brown (10YR 7/4, with yellowish-brown (10YR 5/6) slickenside surfaces) sandstone; deltaic channel sandstone, Saltwick Formation, Aalenian, Middle Jurassic; perhaps from North Yorkshire Moors
Plate numbers in printed volume: 901
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 227
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The stone is of semicircular section, and carries a long-stemmed cross, the horizontal arms having down-turned terminals, and the lower one a rounded terminal where it joins the stem. The end of the upper arm is broken away.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
The form of the stone and the shape of the cross-head have no pre-Conquest analogues in the area, and only its exclusion from an unpublished survey of post-Conquest monuments has led to its inclusion here (pers. comm. P. Ryder). The cross most nearly resembles images of archiepiscopal examples in the windows of late medieval York.
