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Object type: Cross-arm and part of -head [1]
Measurements: L. 55.3 cm (21.8 in) W. (centre) 34.2 cm (13.5 in); (neck) 18.2 cm (7.2 in) D. 12.6 cm (5 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained feldspathic sandstone; probably finer grained variety of Millstone Grit. The sub-angular grains are coated with limonite, giving the overall very pale brown (10YR 7/4) colour to the stone. This cross-head has been patchily burnt to a reddish yellow colour (7.5YR 6/6). Stone provenance possibly as no. 1 (finer grained variety), certainly Namurian, Upper Carboniferous.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 635–8
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 173-174
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A (broad) : The arm is of type D9. There is a double edge moulding in two narrow modelled strands. At the centre of the cross is a broad raised roundel stepped up in three stages in narrow modelled mouldings. Within it is well modelled interlace in narrow strand, originally in four discreet registers, only two of which remain. The pattern is a tight form of 'knitting stitch', identified by Gwenda Adcock as two wide pattern E loops each threaded through with a triquetra (1974, 97, fig. 15a). In the arm is a plant-scroll in narrow well modelled strand, with pointed leaves with twin lobes in the upper corners. The strands, whose roots seem to have been in the lost arm-tip, form a kind of tight medallion scroll with shootlets bearing triangular berry bunches. The shootlets loop, entangling each other. The two principal stems make one twist in the centre of the arm. Below it is pair of trumpet nodes which curve downwards tipped with three-lobed berries. The pattern repeats below this.
B (narrow) : Very worn on the curve but a double edge moulding forms a frame within the cusp. On the outer cusp are remains of very worn interlace in narrow modelled strand. Adcock identified this as turned pattern F with the addition of a twist between the two surviving units (1974, 97–8, fig. 15c).
C (broad) : Dressed.
D (narrow) : As face B. The interlace lies within a narrow modelled frame. Adcock identified the remains of two registers of complete pattern F (1974, 97, fig. 15b).
E (top) : There are two dowel holes in the broken surface of the head, presumably from a later repair.
With no. 4, this is probably the cross-head of no. 1. The unit of measure, 0.75 inches, is the same and that is common to all works of the Uredale master (see Chap. VI, pp. 41–3). The carving is assured and the plant-scroll appears organic. The thicker stems towards the tip of the arm and the fall of the shootlets suggest that this piece is the lower limb or even top of the shaft of the original monument. The complex interlace motif in the centre of the head has been compared with Durham MS A.II.10, fol. 3v (Adcock 1974, 97; Nordenfalk 1977, 32, pl. 1).
