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Object type: Cross-head and part of -shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 57.2 cm (22.5 in) W. (shaft) 19 > 15 cm (7.5 > 5.9 in); (head) 33 cm (13 in) D. (shaft) 14 > 12 cm (5.5 > 4.7 in); (head) 13 cm (5.1 in)
Stone type: Coarse-grained feldspathic Millstone Grit, not noticeably micaceous in appearance. Colour very pale brown (10YR 8/3). Hematite or red lead pigmentation on the cross may be original. Stone provenance as Burnsall (St Wilfrid) 1. [J.S.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 88-92
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 108-9
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A cross of rectangular section with a head of type B10/11. The head and shaft are outlined by flat mouldings. The cutting is shallow but deeper than on Burnsall 1, with some modelling of the strands. This cross has traces of paint.
A (broad): The face of the cross-head is dressed back within its moulding and apart from the large plain boss at the centre is completely plain. The shaft below has interlace, which looks at the top like a terminal of half pattern E, but the strands below stop or peter out and are more irregular then on first impression. The lower half of the face is also rather worn.
B (narrow): The sides of the head are plain. The shaft has three registers of meander type 2.
C (broad): This face of the head is identical to A, although it has suffered some damage. The shaft also has interlace, although the terminal looks more like pattern D than E, but below this is even more irregular and incoherent than on face A.
D (narrow): This face is more worn than the others. The decorated area is probably meant to be a meander type 2 as on face B, but if so it has been garbled.
E (top): Plain
This cross has only elements drawn from the Anglian repertoire — meander and interlace — both laid out at the same large scale. The combination of large-scale meander patterns and interlace is a late feature (compare Upleatham 1, north Yorkshire: Lang 2001, 215, ills. 819–22), but this is more coherent than on many examples.
