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Object type: Shaft fragment
Measurements: L. 54 cm (21.25 in) W. 13.5 cm (5.3 in) D. Built in
Stone type: Medium-grained, feldspathic, ferruginous gritstone, poorly sorted rock fabric with sub-angular grains. Very pale brown (10YR 7/4). Deltaic Millstone Grit (Namurian, Upper Carboniferous) from the Pennines to the south of this site
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 36
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 64
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This may be the narrow side of a shaft. The edge moulding is modelled and flanks a long single panel which contains a run of half-pattern A interlace in modelled strand. At the top the plane of the face dips, along with its mouldings, suggesting this was the neck of the cross.
Gwenda Adcock (pers. comm.) has demonstrated that the interlace is on a 5 cm x 5 cm grid, and that the hole-points are grooves, a feature not typical north of the Tees which flows nearby.
