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Object type: Cross-shaft and lower arm of -head [1]
Measurements: H. 126.3 cm (49.7 in); W. 31.5 cm (12.4 in); D. 25 > 18 cm (9.8 > 7 in)
Stone type: All pieces (head-fragment, shaft and base) very heavily blackened. Sandstone, medium- to coarse-grained, quartz-cemented, slightly micaceous. Local Millstone Grit Group. [G.L.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 306-9
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 159-60
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The shaft is of rectangular section. All faces are edged with flat mouldings, and there is a large plain area of about the half the height of the shaft at the foot of all faces.
A (broad): The remains of the lower arm of the cross-head are filled by a double-stranded interlace terminal, probably a Stafford Knot (simple pattern E). Below, separating it from the shaft, is a narrow horizontal band of plait, damaged and not quite clear on the left side. The remainder of the decorated area is taken up by a flat, angular pattern which seems to be emulating a stylised twist or scroll. Two parallel vertical strands stretch the full height of the panel and terminate in spiral scrolls at top and bottom. They lace loosely through two free strands which also terminate in scrolls, and one complete loose ring.
B (narrow): A continuous stylised lattice/medallion scroll, with some pointed leaves in the spandrels. The linking volutes within the medallions end in curling clubbed tips. This face is much more damaged than in Collingwood's drawing.
C (broad): Not visible in its present position. There is some damaged ornament, possibly an animal, at the top, in the lower arm of the head. Below there is evidence of a panel of ornament in the same position as on face A, which has been hacked away. Part of the moulding of the left-hand corner survives.
D (narrow): The best-preserved face. A broad, flat, double-stranded twist terminates in an attempt at a cross-joined terminal at the top and a bar terminal at the bottom. In between it laces through three large double-stranded loose rings.
The shaft and the arm fragment, Guiseley 3, possibly go together: as Collingwood (1915a, 180) noted, the double-stranded Stafford knot in the lower arm of the cross-head, face A (Ill. 307), relates to the same motif in the cross-arm Guiseley 3, face C (Ill. 305). Bailey (1980, 189) suggested that the crossing medallion scroll is a regional feature, traceable along Wharfedale, where its earliest expression is found on Ilkley 7 (Ill. 383), and a later version is seen on Addingham 1 (Ill. 14). Here on face B, however, it seems like the more angular versions on Collingham 3 (Ill. 153) and on Kirkby Wharfe 2 (Ill. 436). Face A also has what seems to be a distant relative of a medallion scroll.
The use of interlace or plait as a panel divider is a feature found on a number of west Yorkshire shafts, for example on Collingham 4 (Ills. 157–60), and the twist border on Gargrave 2 (Ill. 282) could also be an example of this feature. The degree of stylisation and the loose rings in the twist on face D are a feature of the Anglo-Scandinavian period.
