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Object type: Part of cross-head [1] [2]
Measurements: H. 34 cm (13.4 in) W. 26.6 cm (10.5 in) D. Built in
Stone type: As Forcett 3 (St Cuthbert), except that the stone colour is light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4).
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 258
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 112
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Part of a free-armed cross of type 9 with wide curved arm-pits. The edge moulding is modelled. Within the two surviving arms is interlace of simple pattern F connected by long strands. The arm tips are missing. In the centre is a damaged domed boss encircled by two concentric, modelled rings.
An unambitious piece, but more carefully constructed than other monuments at Forcett. The interlace and free-armed form of the cross might allow for a late pre-Viking date, though survivals of such designs are found in the Anglo-Scandinavian period.
[1] The following are general references to the Forcett stones: (—) 1880–9, civ; Hodges 1894, 195; (—) 1896–1905c, cxxxii; Morris, J. 1904, 156, 420; (—) 1909–10, 72; Morris, J. 1931, 158, 417; (—) 1934–6b, 137; Pevsner 1966, 163; Morris, C. 1976a, 142; Bailey 1980, 191; Welfare et al. 1990, 18.
[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 6: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 557 (Romilly Allen collection).
