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Object type: Round-headed grave-marker
Measurements: H. 59 cm (23.2 in) W. 61 cm (24 in) D. 16 > 12 cm (6.2 > 4.8 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained, feldspathic sandstone cut along the bedding (i.e. bedding parallel to the main cross-head faces). Pale brown to light yellowish brown (10YR 6/3–6/4) deltaic sandstone. Stone source probably as no. 1
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 1168–71
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 288-289
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A fan-armed disc-headed cross set at the west end of a flat grave-cover. On each broad face the round head and the arms are outlined by grooved mouldings. In the centre of the head is a wide raised band encircling a sunken field with a small petal-like cross.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
This was originally one of a pair standing at the head and foot of a grave (Cramp 1984, pl. 263, 1424); the other is now broken and displaced (see no. 58). This grave-marker is more elaborately decorated than comparable examples (cf. Durham 15, Warden 5 and Warkworth 3: Cramp 1984, pl. 150, 787–90, and pl. 255, 1391–7), but such cross shapes with the arms cut by a central circle seem to be a late form. A fragment from a similar grave-marker was found at Lythe, on the adjacent headland to Whitby (no. 38, now lost: Ill. 1147).
