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Object type: Cross-head fragment
Measurements: H. 23.3 cm (9.1 in) W. 21.8 cm (8.6 in) D. 14.3 cm (5.6 in)
Stone type: Very fine deltaic sandstone. Yellowish brown (10YR 6/2), with brown (10YR 5/6) limonite veins. Stone provenance as Kirby Sigston 1 (St Lawrence)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 381–3
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 137-138
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The upper limb, part of the centre and one arc of the ring survive.
A (broad) : The upper arm is splayed and straight sided with a wedge-shaped tip: type B8/9. The edge moulding is plain. The panel on the arm contains part of a pattern F 'Brompton loop' (Fig. 12) in modelled strand. The solid ring is recessed and inset: a type 5 plate head. Its face has a run of pellets flanked by plain mouldings.
B (narrow) : Broken away.
C (broad) : Very damaged, but it seems similar to face A. The plate in the arm-pit is identical.
D (narrow) : The edge of the plate wheel carries incised chevrons between plain modelled mouldings. The arm-tip has a fairly wide edge moulding and, despite damage, a vertical and horizontal band are locked by the remains of a ring. Two of the corners have single pellet fillers.
The design is very close to the Anglo-Scandinavian series of wheel-heads at Brompton and Northallerton (Ills. 51–78, 677–89). At Brompton the plate and pierced rings are distinctive types, but here the two forms are combined. The dating of wheel-heads is accepted as being post c. 920 (Bailey 1978b, 178–9).
