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Object type: Upper part of cross-shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 35.5 cm (14 in) W. 27.3 > 26.4 cm (10.7 > 10.4 in) D. 12.5 cm (4.9 in)
Stone type: Fine-grained, tough, poorly sorted feldspathic sandstone, with sub-angular grains. Very pale brown (10YR 8/3). Bedding planes parallel to main shaft faces with distinctive soft-bed weathering. Deltaic sandstones of the Saltwick Formation, Aalenian, Middle Jurassic; probably from the Sleights Bank Quarries, near Whitby. See also Whitby (abbey, St Peter and St Hilda) no. 7 and no. 8.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 915–18
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 236-237
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A (broad) : Carved on this face only. The edge moulding is double, each strand being narrow, the inner one median-incised. On the right the outer edge moulding is broader than the inner median-incised one. It turns into the neck of the shaft at the top.
B and D (narrow) and C (broad) : Plain.
The inner median-incised moulding typifies the minor differences within the Plain Cross series at Whitby. Dr John Senior points out that close examination of the dimensions and materials of nos. 6, 7 and 8 suggest these to be broken parts of the same cross.
