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Object type: Cross-head
Measurements: H. 43 cm (16.9 in) W. 52.5 cm (21.7 in) D. 16.5 > 9.3 cm (6.5 > 3.7 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained, well sorted deltaic sandstone with small limonitic concretions (10–15mm in size). Brownish yellow (10YR 6/6). Deltaic sandstone from the Saltwick Formation, Aalenian, Middle Jurassic. The present church fabric (Romanesque fragment of the former church) and the older buildings of the village are built from this stone type, probably obtained from the quarries between the settlement and the coast at Port Mulgrave.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 1142–4, 1151
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 280
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The two broad faces are identical, each showing a cross of type B6 with solid plate infill between the arms (type 5). The outer rim of the plate is squared. In the centre of the head is a flat circular boss. There is no evidence of decoration.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
This is a plainer version of the type of cross-head found on the two round-headed grave-markers at Whitby Abbey (nos. 57 and 58; Ills. 1168–71, 1176–9), and may be post-Conquest.
