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Object type: Shaft fragment [1]
Measurements: H. 22.5 cm (8.85 in) W. 26.7 cm (10.5 in) D. 20.3 cm (8 in)
Stone type: Fine-grained micaceous, feldspathic, deltaic sandstone. Brownish yellow (10YR 6/6). From the Saltwick Formation, Aalenian, Middle Jurassic, of the slopes of the Hambleton Hills to the east of Northallerton
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 665
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 181
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A (broad) : At the left is a double edge moulding with a deep incision between the two modelled strands. The upper half of the face is filled with a diagonal key fret in narrow modelled strand. Below it is a plant-scroll. At the left is a narrow nodding seed-pod on a stalk. At the right are four frond-like elements, very worn. Beneath the seed-pod is a lump.
B and D (narrow) and C (broad) : Broken away.
Diagonal key frets are rare in Yorkshire. Drawn out on a diagonal grid, the triangles are basically straight-line spirals (Allen and Anderson 1903, 327, no. 867). North of the Tees this class of pattern tends to be late, often tenth-century, as on Chester-le-Street 5, Great Stainton 1, Lindisfarne 5 and 6, and Norham 5 (Cramp 1984, 56, 91–2, 196–7, 210), although Hurworth 1 (ibid., 105) and Irton 1 in Cumbria (Bailey and Cramp 1988, 115–17) have been dated to the ninth century, contemporary with this piece. Tenth-century fashions in Yorkshire were quite different, and the adjacent plant-scroll reinforces an Anglian attribution.
