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Object type: Centre of cross-head [1]
Measurements: H. 40.1 cm (15.8 in); W. max. 28.6 cm (11.3 in); D. 10.8 cm (4.3 in) (boss on face A stands out 5.7 cm (2.25 in))
Stone type: Sandstone (pollution blackened), pale yellow, medium to coarse-grained, hard quartz cemented, slightly micaceous. Middle Coal Measures Group, Carboniferous (Local Thornhill Rock?). [G.L.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 228-9
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 146
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The centre of a cross-head with part of a curved armpit. Apart from the centres the carving is shallow with a flat, unmodelled, upper surface.
A (broad): The centre is a prominent domed boss, around which can be seen a flat angular strand forming an irregular interlace.
B (narrow): A fragment of a plain dressed armpit survives on this face.
C (broad): This face is invisible in its present position. In an earlier photograph, it can be seen that the centre is a long raised ovoid, narrower at the bottom than the top. Collingwood drew this as having a raised Latin cross, but it could be a face, of which the arched eyebrows and the nose can be seen. There may be remnants of flat strands outside the oval, but none is entirely convincing.
D (narrow): Missing
If there is a face at the centre this could be a crude version of the type seen on Low Bentham 1 (Ill. 542). See also the discussions of Crofton 1 (p. 125, Ills. 183–4), and Cawthorne 1 and 2 (pp. 114, 115, Ills. 139, 150), and note also Dewsbury 12 above. If it is a cross, however, there are a number of examples of late and relatively plain heads with this central feature, for example Burnsall 7 (Ill. 106). The irregular interlace is a sign of late date.
