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Object type: Cross-head [1]
Measurements: H. 21.5 cm (8.5 in) W. 27.3 cm (10.75 in) D. 9.7 cm (3.8 in)
Stone type: As Osmotherley 1 (St Peter) (also deteriorating due to damp). Osmotherley (St Peter) 1 and 3 could be part of the same cross.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 720, 723
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 191
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A small type A11 cross with very short arms and circular arm-pits; the tips are flat.
A (broad) : A raised roll moulding runs around the perimeter of the cross. The interior face is smoothly dressed. In the centre is a large raised circle in narrow roll moulding.
B (narrow) and E (top) : Plain.
C (broad) and D (narrow) : Not visible.
The squat form of the arms is unusual, and the paucity of decoration equally so. It could well be an old-fashioned post-Conquest finial cross, except that it should be compared with the end-stone crosses at Lythe (p. 157, nos. 9–16) and the grave-slab at Stanwick (no. 8, Ill. 773). Its closest analogue in the region is Kirklevington 20 (Ills. 450–3).
