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Object type: Fragment [1]
Measurements: L. 18 cm (7 in) W. 14.5 > 12.5 cm (5.7 > 5 in) D. 15.5 cm (6.1 in)
Stone type: As Great Ayton 1 (All Saints)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 309–10
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 120
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A: A roll moulding survives on the right and the face has been pecked back to leave the outline of part of a standing cross, type 6, in the centre. Lower to the right, there appears to be the head of a similar cross.
B: The moulding on the left survives enclosing an indecipherable pattern grooved into the surface.
Such jumbles of pattern as on face B may be merely incompetent workmanship, but exploded and jumbled patterns do seem more common on later monuments, and one can compare North Otterington 2 (Ill. 693), or the grooved patterns on the hammer-headed cross from Middlesmoor in the West Riding (Collingwood 1915, 219). On the other face the carving of the crosses is clear enough, and this would seem to be a Calvary in which a taller central cross is flanked by two shorter crosses, an image of Salvation which is also found at Whithorn in Galloway, and elsewhere (Collingwood 1927a, fig. 10).
