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Object type: Grave-marker fragment [1] [2]
Measurements: H. 17 cm (6.7 in) W. 24.5 cm (9.6 in) D. Built in
Stone type: As Stainton 1 (St Peter and St Paul)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 773
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 205
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A type E11 cross, with tightly curved arm-pits, stands proud from a plain background. The splayed arms have a narrow modelled perimeter moulding and slightly convex tips. The interior of the cross is plain though there may have been a central boss, now lost. The plain background extends beyond the limits of the cross.
This is the only non-Viking piece from Stanwick. The church with its circular graveyard sits in the centre of the Brigantine enclosure (Morris, R. 1989, 454–5, pl. 3; Welfare et al. 1990, 32–3, fig. 5). The cross form is very similar to the free-arm head, Osmotherley 3 (Ill. 723), though the size and form of the monument more closely resemble Aycliffe 12, co. Durham (Cramp 1984, 46–7, pl. 14, 57–60). There is no diagnostic ornament to assist its dating. [3]
[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 8: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 787 (Romilly Allen collection).
[3] But see also the discussion of no. 19 below (p. 208). (D.C.)
