Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Lythe 13, Yorkshire North Riding Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Beneath the tower, on shelf on north wall
Evidence for Discovery
See Lythe 1a–b (St Oswald)
Church Dedication
St Oswald
Present Condition
The top of a cruciform end-stone
Description

A (broad) : The upper and lateral limbs of a type B8 cross with wedge-shaped arms standing in relief from narrow recessed backgrounds. The arm-tips are squared in a very shallow way. The intersection of the cross is circular but not raised as a boss.

B and D (narrow) : Plain.

C (broad) : As face A.

E (top) : A T-shaped ridge runs from faces A to C across the top of the upper limb, and the recessed backgrounds of the lateral arms are extended into raised ridges on either side.

Discussion

See Lythe 9 (St Oswald).

Date
First half of tenth century
References
Collingwood 1911, 289; Collingwood 1912, 126
Endnotes
None

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