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Object type: Cross-head fragment [1]
Measurements: H. 25.5 cm (10 in) W. 39.5 cm (15.6 in) D. 11.8 cm (4.6 in)
Stone type: As Northallerton 3 (All Saints)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 703–5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 187
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A (broad) : A type A11 cross with slightly splayed squared arms and circular arm-pits, which are unpierced but scooped, with a plate ring of type 5. A flat edge moulding runs round the cross, with step 1 mouldings by the scooped arm-pits. Within the panel is the lower half of a Crucifixion, the feet splayed out, the torso clad in a belted tunic resembling modern shorts.
B (narrow) : The edge moulding on the ring plate is awry. The flat arm-tip has a narrow perimeter moulding framing a closed circuit pattern B knot in median-incised strand.
C (broad) : The edge moulding varies in width but is generally broad. The cross-arms are slightly splayed. In the centre is a flat circular boss, slightly off-centre. Below it in broad median-incised strand is a pattern F loop apparently with included U bends, which extends into identical smaller loops in the damaged lateral arms.
D (narrow) : Worn and broken.
E (top) : Lost.
This cross-head is of a familiar type in the region, with the Crucifixion in the Irish position and Christ standing clothed. The ring-heads were introduced from the west into Yorkshire in the Hiberno-Norse settlement areas in the early tenth century (see Chap. IV, p. 26).
