The Corpus: Kirklevington 21

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Kirklevington 21, Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Cross-arm [1]

Measurements: (after Collingwood 1907) L. 19 cm (7.5 in) W. 19 cm (7.5 in) D. Not recorded

Stone type: Unobtainable

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 457–8

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 151

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Present Location

Lost

Evidence for Discovery

See no. 1.

Church Dedication

St Martin

Present Condition

Unobtainable

Description

(After Collingwood's description and drawings.)

A (broad): The broken lateral arm of a free-armed cross with widely curving profiles and a convex tip, type E10. There was an edge moulding containing an interlace termination of three-cord closed circuit (Collingwood 1907, fig. g).

C (broad): As face A, but damaged (Collingwood 1907, fig. h).

Other faces: Plain.

Discussion

The shape of the cross is similar to that of Brompton 11 (Ills. 58–60), though without the plate.

Free-armed crosses were common throughout the Anglian and the Anglo-Scandinavian periods.

Date

Ninth to tenth century

References

Collingwood 1907, 272, 351, figs. g–h on 350; Collingwood 1912, 125

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Kirklevington stones: Browne 1880–4, cx, cxii; Young 1882, 458; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; Frank 1888, 44; Bulmer 1890, 162; Hodges 1894, 195; (—) 1896–1905a, viii; Lofthouse 1896–8, 16; (—) 1899–1900b, 250; Morris, J. 1904, 228–9, 420; Collingwood 1908, 120; Page, W. 1923, 262; Morris, J. 1931, 229, 417; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 217, 248; Mee 1941, 136; Pevsner 1966, 221; Morris, C. 1976a, 143–4; Brown, M. 1979, 44; Horton 1979, 195; Bailey 1980, 252, 255, 265; Cramp 1984, 30; Lang 1991, 42, 214; Daniels 1995, 81; Stocker 2000, 200–3.