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Object type: Fragment
Measurements: Too high to reach
Stone type: Close access not possible: probably a carboniferous sandstone (using binoculars). [G.L.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 189
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 128
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The visible face has two volutes of a plant-scroll, one facing left, the other right. Both terminate in a flower or berry bunch. They appear to spring from a central stem, which might imply they represent a horizontal section from a bush-scroll, if this is part of a cross-shaft (but see below). The scroll looks as if it has a finely cut stem. The volutes are spiraliform.
It is difficult to assign a date to such a small piece which is hard to see. There are uninhabited bush-scrolls in the region, for example at Ilkley 6, where there is one with an even tighter spiraliform volute (Ill. 387); see also Birstall 1 (Ill. 70) and Dewsbury 7 (Ills. 212, 214). It is possible that this is not a fragment of cross-shaft, but an architectural piece, a fragment of a frieze or string-course with a horizontally disposed spiral scroll as at St Martin-cum-Gregory, York (Lang 1991, 83, ills. 214–5).
