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Object type: Part of round-shaft
Measurements: H. 104 cm (41 in); W. 21.5 cm (8.5 in); D. 21.5 cm (8.5 in); Circumference 124 > 95 cm (48.75 > 36 in)
Stone type: Pale red (10R 6/2), coarse-grained, clast-supported sandstone. Grains 0.5 to 2.0 mm, but mostly in the range 0.6 to 1.0 mm; a few scattered pebbles up to 6.0 mm. Grains, sub-angular to sub-rounded, mostly quartz, but a few feldspars noted. Helsby Sandstone Formation?, Sherwood Sandstone Group, Triassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 2-8
Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 45-6
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The cylindrical part of the shaft is topped by two broad and flat mouldings. Above these mouldings, a lower swag border survives on all faces of the rectangular section of the cross. No decoration is visible on any part of the shaft.
Round-shaft, type g/h (see Chapter V, p. 33, and Adlington 1). If, as seems likely, the shaft was originally undecorated then, with its double encircling moulding, it can be matched locally in Cheshire at Macclesfield St Michael 3, Wincle Cleulow 1 and Wincle Grange 1 (Ills. 185–8, 362–5, 366–71); further east there are similar shafts at Fernilee Hall and Whitfield in Derbyshire (Sharpe 2002, 95, 98).
