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Object type: Cross-base
Measurements: H. 57 cm (22.4 in); W. (west face): 60 > 49 cm (23.6 > 19.3 in); D. (south face) 59 > 50 cm (23.2 > 19.7 in)e socket measures 30 x 26.2 cm (11.8 x 10.3 in)
Stone type: Sandstone (pollution blackened), showing strong, high angle, cross-bedding planes across the fabric. Middle Coal Measures Group, Carboniferous (local Thornhill Rock?). [G.L.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 841-5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 284
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This is a square cross-base tapering towards the top. There are the remains of mouldings on the angles, and traces which suggest that these may have been cabled. There is a rectangular socket at the top.
Appendix A item (Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
Essentially too plain for firm dating, although the angle mouldings are suggestive. It is also very much in the same area as the decorated bases at Hartshead, Rastrick and Birstall, and only a short distance from the same Roman road (see Chap. IV, p. 43).
