Standing in a vegetable garden in Low Hawsker village, in a socket repaired after the shaft fell in April 1974 (see Hawsker (Hawsker Hall, Low Hawsker) 2).

Illustrated by G. Young in 1817 from a drawing by J. Bird, and marked in its present position on the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map of 1853. The shaft is on a medieval trackway running south-east from Whitby Abbey, and was said to mark a former chapel site (Page, W. 1923, 514, 525).

Worn; no cross-head, the top truncated. The shaft is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, North Yorkshire 120 (RSM 25653).

A (broad, west) : The edge moulding is plain and worn. The face has three rectangular panels separated by transverse plain mouldings. (i) The top panel contains worn closed circuit interlace (four stages of threefold circuits) in a fairly broad strand. The hole-points are drilled. (ii) The second panel is filled with closed circuit interlace (four stages of fourfold circuits). The hole-points are deeply cut and the crossings of the strands are rectangular. (iii) Below the transverse moulding, the third panel contains a very worn quadruped with a long neck and head bent backwards on the right of the panel (contra Collingwood 1911, fig. N.W.). The legs taper. (iv) Below the lower edge moulding of this panel is a pendant triquetra (Collingwood's drawing shows the triquetra linked to the moulding). (v) The lower portion of the shaft is undecorated.

B (narrow, south) : The edge moulding is very worn, but seems to have been modelled. The face is panelled. (i) The topmost, broken at the crest, contains Como-braid twist, regularly constructed. (ii) Below the transverse border a second panel has basket plait in modelled strand and with regular hole-points deeply cut, possibly drilled. (iii) Below another transverse moulding, a panel contains a ring-knot with four return loops in modelled strand. (iv) Below the next border is a pendant triquetra. (v) The lower part is undecorated.

C (broad, east) : Very worn. The edge moulding is wide and plain, and with three transverse bands divides the face into squarish panels. (i) The top panel may be truncated and contains closed circuit basket plait based on deeply cut hole-points on a regular grid, like that on face A. (ii) The transverse border below is faint, and below it is a weathered panel showing a horse and rider facing to the left. The rider carries a spear. (iii) Below the transverse moulding is a panel with extremely worn ornament, now unintelligible, but not as drawn by Collingwood (1911, fig. S.E.). (iv) Below this is the remains of a triquetra (not shown in Collingwood's drawing). (v) The lower part is undecorated.

D (narrow, north) : The plain edge moulding is broad and flanks a single long panel containing a leafless plant-scroll. It grows from a node at the base, its principal central stem undulating upwards. It is flanked by two slimmer strands which behave as interlace, forming a pattern C loop in each of the spandrels. At the base are three pendant pellets. The lower portion of the shaft is undecorated.

This shaft is an outlier of the Allertonshire workshop (see Chapter VI). The unbordered triquetra vandykes are found on Sockburn 4 and 7 (Cramp 1984, 137, pl. 129, 707, and 138, pl. 134, 729), which also have single quadrupeds in panels (ibid., pl. 129, 706 and 708; pl. 134, 726 and 728). Sockburn 7 also has Como-braid twist (ibid., pl. 134, 727 and 729), as does Kirklevington 1 (Ill. 401), another of the Allertonshire group. The vandyke pendants are skeuomorphs of metal appliqués (Lang 1986, 246–9), as they are at Brompton in Allertonshire (Ills. 30, 33), and in eastern Yorkshire on Lastingham 1 and Sherburn 4 (Lang 1991, 167, ills. 574–7, and 203–4, ills. 772–5). The plant-scroll, almost pure interlace, was a motif that survived well into the Anglo-Scandinavian period, though not as late as Collingwood'suggested (1907, 283); it has a very close parallel in Hart 1, co. Durham, which is very probably by the same hand (Cramp 1984, 93, pl. 79, 395). The rider on the Hart fragment is identical (ibid., pl. 79, 394), and similar horsemen are found in this region, on Baldersby 1 (Ill. 4) and Stanwick 1 (Ill. 752).

First half of tenth century

Young, G. 1817, II, 754, no. 5, fig. facing 756; Whellan 1859, II, 822; Atkinson 1860, 88, 257; Robinson, F. 1860, 88, 257; Allen and Browne 1885, 353; Bulmer 1890, 1147; Atkinson 1894, 120, 244; Hodges 1894, 195; Collingwood 1907, 293n, 330; Collingwood 1911, 280–3, figs. on 282; Collingwood 1912, 118, 124; Collingwood 1915, 263, 264, 283; Page, W. 1923, 514, 525; Woodwark 1923, 5, 10, 18, 34, pl. facing 6; Woodwark 1924, 5, 10, 18, 34, pl. facing 6; Collingwood 1927a, 146, 149, fig. 168; Crossley 1929, 338; Morris, J. 1931, 33, 182, 418; Kendall 1932, 28; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 218, 247; Brown, G. B. 1937, 242; Mee 1941, 106–7; Kendrick 1949, 125; Pevsner 1966, 185–6; (—) 1975, 443–4, ills. on 443; Bailey 1980, 187–8, fig. 51f; Hayes, 1988, 33; Graham 1993, 50; Everson and Stocker 1999, 129, 203

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