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Object type: Cross-arm [1] [2]
Measurements: L. 23 cm (9.1 in) W. 24.3 cm (9.6 in) D. 9.7 cm (3.8 in)
Stone type: As Northallerton 3 (All Saints). This or no. 7 could be part of the same cross as Northallerton 3 (All Saints).
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 685–6
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 184-185
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A (broad) : A free cross-arm with widely curving arm-pits, type B10, the arm-tip slightly convex.
The edge moulding is flat and the panel contains a 'Brompton loop' with linking strands.
B and D (narrow) and E (top) : Plain.
C (broad) : As face A, but deeply cut.
This piece demonstrates that the local tenth-century cross-head form was not always of the ring or plate variety.
[1] The following are general references to the Northallerton stones: Browne 1880–4, cx, cxi; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; Saywell 1885, 5, 6, 218, 219, 222; Saywell 1886, 480–1; Bulmer 1890, 525, 526; Robinson, J. 1890, 35, fig. 9; Hodges 1894, 195; Morris, J. 1904, 280, 420; Bogg 1908, 14; Collingwood 1912, 110, pl. III; Page, W. 1914, 426, 429; Morris, J. 1931, 280, 417; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 195, 249; Mee 1941, 169; Pevsner 1966, 271; Bailey 1980, 240, 252, 255; Cambridge 1989, 382, 384, 385; Morris, R. 1989, 138; Hadley 2000, 244; Stocker 2000, 205–6. The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to the Northallerton stones: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 702 (Romilly Allen collection).
[2]The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 8: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 703 (Romilly Allen collection).
