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Object type: Cross-shaft, in two pieces [1]
Measurements:
a: H. 80 cm (31.5 in); (W. 39 cm (15.4 in); D. 33 cm (13 in)
b: H. 83 cm (32.7 in); (W. 57 cm (22.4 in); D. 57 cm (22.4 in)
Stone type: Dark reddish-brown, medium- to coarse-grained, hard, ferruginous sandstone; Cretaceous, Lower Greensand, Woburn Sands Formation of the Stanbridge area
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 409-412
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 246
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Fragment a is an irregularly-finished tapering shaft of square section, roughly broken above. Only one face is carved.
A: Towards the upper edge there is a Greek cross delimited by incised lines, with a shallow, circular depression in the centre.
Fragment b is an irregularly-finished shaft of approximately square section and tapering slightly towards the upper end. It is undecorated.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Both stones are made from the same material, and may have derived from the same monument. If so, the dimensions of the pieces suggest that 1b must in fact have formed the lower part, and 1a the upper. The dating of the pieces remains problematical, but a shaft of this size from the post-Conquest period would be unusual in south-east England.
