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Object type: Cross-head and fragment of shaft
Measurements: H. (overall) 30.8 > 24 cm (12.1 > 9.4 in); W. (head) 27.5 cm (10.8 in) (shaft) 10.6 > 2 cm (4.2 > 0.8 in); D. 14 > 2 cm (5.5 > 0.8 in)
Stone type: Pale yellowish-grey, medium-grained, shelly, oolitic limestone; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 717-718
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 339
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The circular head is carved only on the broad faces; the arms, type E8, are separated by rather irregular oval perforations. The front and back can be distinguished. The surviving part of the shaft is only 3 cm long and has a lozenge shape, with the narrowest face and longer sides forward.
A (broad): At the centre of the front there is a flower composed of eight circular bosses around a central boss and the arms on this face are deeply chamfered.
C (broad): The back has a damaged, apparently once similar, central element but the facetting of the arms is less marked.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
The head type is a mixture of E8 and E12. For similar heads, see Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland (Cramp 1984, i, 241–2, ii, pl. 237 (1341–3)).
