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Object type: Cross-head [1]
Measurements: H. 40.7 cm (16 in) W. 45.3 cm (18 in) D. Not recorded
Stone type: Sandstone (ibid.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 1–3
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 57
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From photographs formerly stored at R.C.H.M. York office (now in the National Monuments Record, Swindon).
A (broad) : A free-armed cross of type B9 with wedge-shaped limbs and widely curving arm-pits and straight tips. The modelled edge moulding is almost worn away. In the centre is an eroded boss encircled by a ring in modelled strand. At each side a lateral strand crosses the ring to pass behind the boss. The interlace of the upper limb is barely decipherable, and that of the lateral arms, also much worn, resembles a tangled scroll in its format with deep hole-points. From below, the modelled strands appear to have formed a medallion around the boss.
B (narrow) : Not recorded; probably as face D.
C (broad) : Extremely worn, the plain edge moulding survives only on the right-hand arm-tip. In the centre is a prominent domed boss. The arms are filled with modelled interlace strands with deep hole-points. It is difficult to make out the patterns from the photographs.
D (narrow) : Plain.
The modelled interlace strand and free-armed form suggest the Anglian tradition, but its survival into the Anglo-Scandinavian period in Yorkshire allows the date of this cross-head to be quite late. Compare Londesborough 1 (Lang 1991, 179–80, ill. 665).
