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Object type: Upper part of cross-shaft [1] [2]
Measurements: H. 63.4 cm (25 in) W. 33 > 26.4 cm (13 > 10.4 in) D. 17 > 15.8 cm (6.7 > 6.2 in)
Stone type: As Kirby Hill 1 (All Saints, Kirkby-on-the-Moor) except that the colour is very pale brown (10YR 8/4) and there are prominent bedding planes parallel to faces A and C.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 350–3
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 130-131
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A (broad) : The shaft tapers sharply to the inclined neck of the cross-head, which may have been a ring-head, type (a), to judge from the stump on the top right of the fragment. On the lower limb of the cross-head a broad flat edge moulding contains a broad chevron with a triangular filler within it in picked work. On the shaft the edge moulding is very worn and contains two squarish panels roughly carved within an inner frame. The upper panel contains dense closed circuit interlace in a broad humped strand. The transverse border sags as a broad strip. The lower panel has similar closed circuit interlace, clumsily constructed, the strand having traces of median incision. The interlace in both panels is a densely woven six-cord plain plait.
B (narrow) : On the broken neck of the cross is the possible stump of a ring. The edge mouldings are modelled with a transverse panel division contained within them, separating two panels of closed circuit interlace of the type on face A, but without median incision. The upper panel is possibly three-cord plait but is much worn. The lower panel interlace is clumsily resolved in filler-like loops. Below that is the top of an inner frame in a narrow moulding; the panel tapers towards the foot and is broken.
C (broad) : Identical with face A except that the transverse panel division is a function of panel frames abutting.
D (narrow) : Similar to face B, but the upper panel of interlace is irregular.
The decoration is laid out free-hand, unlike no. 1; the unadventurous picked work suggests an inferior hand.
[1] The following are general references to the Kirby Hill stones: Lunn [1867], 13; Allen and Browne 1885, 353; Allen 1890, 293; Bulmer 1890, 734; Hodges 1894, 195, 201; Morris, J. 1904, 212, 420; Thompson 1908, 113; Stapleton 1923, 7, 10, 53; Morris, J. 1931, 212, 417; Pontefract and Hartley [1936], 126; Mee 1941, 125; Taylor and Taylor 1965, I, 355; Pevsner 1966, 210; Morris, R. 1989, 161; Muir 1997, 96–7.
[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 3: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 632 (Romilly Allen collection).
