The Corpus: Burnsall 08

Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: Burnsall 08, West Riding of Yorkshire

Overview

Object type: Lower part of cross-head [1]

Measurements: H. 18.5 cm (7.3 in); W. 33 cm (13 in); D. 10 cm (4 in)

Stone type: As Burnsall (St Wilfrid) 1a–d

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 111-15

Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 111

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Present Location

As Burnsall 1a–d

Evidence for Discovery

Found with nos. 9, 11 and 12 in 1912 by the rector, the Rev. W. J. Stavert under the church tower, while moving the font.

Church Dedication

St Wilfrid

Present Condition

Worn. A vestige of the shaft remains.

Description

One arm of a head of type E10/11.

A (broad): A raised moulding edges the arm and its extension into the top of the shaft. Within this, a second moulding, with a roughly incised inner edge, and shaped like an arm of type E10, fills the surviving arm of the head.

B and D (narrow): Plain

C (broad): More worn than A, but within the edge moulding the face seems completely plain.

Discussion

The cross within a cross is paralleled in the more complete head, Burnsall (St Wilfrid) 7.

Date

Tenth to eleventh century

References

Stavert 1913, 11–12; Collingwood 1915a, 150, 281, fig. aa on 151; Collingwood 1927, 88, 89, fig. 108aa; Coatsworth 2005, 13, no. 7, fig. on 13

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Burnsall stones: Whitaker 1878, 504; Browne 1880–4a, lxxiv; Allen and Browne 1885, 353; Browne 1885c, 157; Browne 1885–6, 124; Allen 1889, 230; Allen 1890, 293, 294; Allen 1891, 158; MacMichael 1906, 359; Morris 1911, 143; Collingwood 1915b, 334; Browne 1916, 50; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 218; Mee 1941, 91; Pevsner 1959, 152; Lang 1984, 88.