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Object type: Cross-base
Measurements: H. 67.8 cm (26.7 in); Diam. 133.6 cm (52.3 in); Circum. 453 cm (178.3 in); Circum. of socket 284 cm (111.8 in)
Stone type: Fine to medium grained, well-sorted sandstone, with sub-rounded grains and some muscovite mica flakes present. Reddened body colour, pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2). This seems to be a reused base section of a large Roman column, recut with a recess in the top. The source of the rock does not appear to be immediately local, but is of Coal Measures origin (Westphalian, Upper Carboniferous) and the reddened body colour associates with proximity to the Permian unconformity in this region of west Yorkshire. [J.S.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 802
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 276
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A large plain base for a round shaft. The shaft, if pre-Conquest, would have been larger than that from Masham (Lang 2001, 169–71, ills. 597–603).
Appendix A item (Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
Too plain to date
