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Object type: Upper part of cross-shaft
Measurements: H. 58 cm (22.8 in) W. 30 > 22 cm (11.9 > 8.6 in) D. 10.5 > 10 cm (4.2 > 3.9 in)
Stone type: Coarse mottled feldspathic sandstone. Very pale brown (10YR 7/3), with flecks of limonite, brownish yellow in colour (10YR 6/6). Stone provenance probably Brigantian (Upper Carboniferous), as in some Forcett examples
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 1112–5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 271
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The upper section of a slab-like shaft, carved in a grooved technique with flat strands and edge mouldings.
A (broad) : Two linked double ring knots with a bar terminal at the top. The division between the shaft and the head is marked by a horizontal moulding which passes through two rings at the arris. There is not enough surviving interlace from the head to determine the type.
B (narrow) : The edge of the head is plain. Below, the flat mouldings enclose a simple pattern in which two straight strands are punctuated by three single ring-knots, separated by glides.
C (broad) : As face A but blurred by cement.
D (narrow) : As face B but with only two knots.
The slab-like form of this piece, the simple grooved interlace and the ring knots all indicate a date in the tenth to eleventh century. The binding of the arris with a ring is, however, a regional characteristic, found on Brompton 3 (Ills. 37–40), Kirklevington 2 (Ills. 404–7), and Sockburn 8 (Cramp 1984, pl. 136, 733–6), and identified by J.L. as a feature of the Allertonshire workshop (see Chapter VI). This seems to be a minor grave monument of the Viking Age.
[1] The following are general references to the Wycliffe stones: Bulmer 1890, 635; Hodges 1894, 195; (—) 1929–30, 60; Morris, J. 1931, 413; Mee 1941, 263; Cowen and Barty 1966, 65; Pevsner 1966, 403; Cambridge 1984, 76; Cramp 1989, 215n; Cramp 1992, 331n.
[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 4: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, items 812–13 (Romilly Allen collection).
