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Object type: Grave-marker
Measurements: H. 56 > 52.5 cm (22 > 20.7 in); W. 36 > 35 cm (14.2 > 13.8 in); D. 11 > 6.5 cm (4.3 > 2.6 in)
Stone type: Pale grey, porous, shell-fragment limestone; Quarr stone, Bembridge Formation, Palaeogene, Tertiary; Isle of Wight
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 691-694
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 337
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A and C (broad): Both faces are carved with a cross with wedge-shaped arms and narrow curves (type B8). The centre of the cross is marked on both sides with a compass point from which five circles were set out creating an inner band, 2.5 cm wide, and two outer bands, 2.5 cm and 2 cm wide, respectively. The radius to the inner band is 4.8 cm, to the inner edge of the double band 15.5 cm; the diameter to the outer line is c. 35 cm. The arms start at the outer edge of the inner band, but are interrupted by the passage of the outer bands, and are then open to the edge of the stone.
B, D and E (narrow sides and top): Plain.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
The carving is assured. It is of the same family as the cross-heads from Chollerton, Northumberland, although they are of type E8 (Cramp 1984, i, 239, ii, pl. 236).
