Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire
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Current Display: Whitby 05 (abbey), Yorkshire North Riding
Overview
Object type: Lower part of cross-shaft, in two joining pieces [1]
Measurements: H. 45 cm (17.7 in) W. 20.5 > 19 cm (8.1 > 7.5 in) D. 15 > 10.3 cm (5.9 > 4.1 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained, well sorted, feldspathic sandstone, with minor quantities of small mica flakes. Very pale brown (10YR 6/3). A good quality stone with bedding planes parallel to the shaft faces. Stone provenance as Whitby 1 (abbey, St Peter and St Hilda)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 911–14
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 236
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Present Location
English Heritage North Region store, Helmsley (EH 88092944)
Evidence for Discovery
See Whitby 1 (abbey, St Peter and St Hilda). Probably the 'part of cross, bottom end', found 14 February 1925, on paving in section 4 (Whitby finds register, no. 809). Section 4 was adjacent to the north wall of the abbey nave, at the west end (see Fig. 19).
Church Dedication
St Peter and St Hilda
Present Condition
In two pieces, conserved; one face damaged
Description
A (broad) : The lower 12 cm is unworked. There is a double edge moulding, both strands narrow, the inner one very narrow.
B and D (narrow) : As face A.
C (broad) : Parts of plain dressed surface survive.
Discussion
Probably one of the Plain Cross group. This piece may be unfinished.
Date
Late seventh to early eighth century
References
Peers and Radford 1943, 36, no. 5
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Whitby stones: Hood 1927, 38, 45, 49; Kendall 1932, 9–10, 26–7, 28; Peers and Radford 1943, 33–40; Clapham 1952, 11; Wilson, D. 1964, 9; Cramp 1965b, 4; Fellows-Jensen 1972, 218; Cramp 1976a, 228; Cramp 1976b, 455–7; Rahtz 1976, 460; Cramp 1978a, 7; Bailey 1980, 81, 82; Okasha 1983, 118; Cramp 1984, 9, 79, 109, 180, 222; Higgitt 1986b, 130–1, 134, 148; Bailey and Cramp 1988, 55, 56, 85, 154; Cramp 1989, 223; Lang 1989a, 67; Lang 1990a, 2–3; Higgitt 1991, 45; Lang 1991, 24, 109, 138, 139; Cramp 1992, 8, 24, 107, 224, 252; Okasha 1992, 84; Cramp 1993, 68–9, 71; Fellows-Jensen 1995, 177; Higgitt 1995, 229–36; Rahtz 1995, 7–8; Bailey 1996a, 50–1, 111; Hawkes 1999b, 403, 410–16; Karkov 1999, 133–4; Stocker 2000, 200; Stopford 2000, 102, 104.
