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Object type: Cross-slab
Measurements: H. 46 cm (18 in); W. 53 cm (21 in); D. 13 cm (5 in)
Stone type: Pale red (5R 6/2), medium- to coarse-grained (0.4 to 1.0 mm, but mostly 0.6 to 0.8 mm), angular to sub-angular, clast-supported, quartz sandstone. Millstone Grit Group, Carboniferous
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 372-3
Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 139
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Upper half of a cross-slab with type E10 cross-head carved in relief against a lowered circular background.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
Though the form of its cross-head is familiar in the pre-Norman period, it is probable that this slab is part of a widespread twelfth-century group of grave-covers or grave-markers whose cross pattée shape is linked to a narrow shaft running down the length of the slab. Among Northumberland examples from Birtley, Bedlington, Chatton and Rothbury, are forms which are accompanied by post-Conquest symbols of shears (Ryder 2000, fig. 4; id. 2002, figs. 1; id. 2003, 111–12, figs. 1, 12, 24).
