Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire
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Current Display: Gilling West 07, Yorkshire North Riding
Overview
Object type: Cross-arm fragment [1]
Measurements: L. 16.6 cm (6.5 in) W. 16 cm (6.2 in) D. 12.7 > 12.2 cm (5 > 4.8 in)
Stone type: As Gilling West 1 (St Agatha), but not burnt
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 288–90
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 116-117
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Present Location
See Gilling West 1 (St Agatha)
Evidence for Discovery
Found in 1998 'in a drainage trench east of the inner north aisle' (information by courtesy of L. A. S. Butler)
Church Dedication
St Agatha
Present Condition
Broken but unworn
Description
One arm of a cross-head, type B8/9.
A and C (broad): The two broad faces are covered with close-packed irregular interlace in a pecked technique, within a plain modelled edge moulding.
B and D (narrow): The adjacent faces are roughly dressed.
E (top): The tip of the arm has similar closely packed interlace within a plain moulding.
Discussion
The close-packed irregular interlace and the short, sharply angled arm are later characteristics. This piece is similar to no. 6 but is probably not part of the same cross.
R.C.
Date
Tenth to eleventh century
References
Unpublished
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Gilling West stones: Browne 1880–4, cx, cxii; Allen and Brown 1885, 353; (—) 1890–5b, xxvi; Hodges 1894, 195; Speight 1897, 176; Morris, J. 1904, 161, 420; Bogg 1908, 167; Page, W. 1914, 81; Glynne 1915, 472; Morris, J. 1931, 162, 417; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 189, 247; Mee 1941, 91; Lang and Morris 1976b, 130; Laybourn 1979, 2–3, fig. 1; O'Sullivan and Young 1980, 13; Hatcher 1990, 95; Laybourn 1996, 1–2; Hadley 2000, 242. Gilling West has been identified with Ingetlingum, the site of a monastery founded in the seventh century in atonement for the murder of Oswine, king of Deira (Bede 1896, H.A.A. ch. 2; Bede 1969, H.E. III.14, III.24). The churchyard is curvilinear, but limited excavations in 1979 produced only post-medieval material from beneath the enclosure bank (O'Sullivan and Young 1980, 13–14). (Eds.)
