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Object type: Cross-head fragment [1]
Measurements: H. 39.5 cm (15.6 in) W. 34.7 cm (13.7 in) D. 15.1 > 12.6 cm (6 > 5 in)
Stone type: As Kirkby In Cleveland 1 (St Augustine) except that the colour is a light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4).
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 396–8
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 140
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The fragment represents about half of a plate-head cross of type B9.
A (broad) : A plain edge moulding (2 cm wide) runs round the cross which has wide U-shaped arm-pits. In the centre is a domed boss, now chipped, 5.5 cm across and standing 1.7 cm proud. The space around the boss is plain, and fitting into the cross-arms is a strand which forms a pattern F 'Brompton loop' before passing to the adjacent arm.
B (narrow) and E (top) : Broken away.
C (broad) : Identical to face A, though part of one surviving arm has broken away. The boss is undamaged.
D (narrow) : The plate is 6.6 cm thick and recessed 4 cm from the plane of the cross. On the arm tip is a panel of plain plait within an edge moulding.
Such plate-head crosses with a broad curved arm-pit are found at Brompton (Ills. 58–78), and the pattern F interlace decoration, whilst more openly disposed about the boss, may be identical with the Brompton series, perhaps even from the same template (see Fig. 12, p. 47).
