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Object type: Cross-head with fragmentary -shaft
Measurements: H. 84 cm (33 in); W. shaft 30.5 > 28 cm (12 > 11 in); arms 58 cm (23 in); D. 27 cm (10.5 in)
Stone type: Yellowish grey (5Y 7/2), hard, poorly sorted, clast-supported, medium- (0.3 mm) to coarse-grained (2.0 mm), but mostly medium-grained between 0.5 and 1.0 mm, but with a few clasts up to 3 mm, quartz sandstone. Mostly angular to sub-rounded quartz grains, but a few scattered feldspars. The base is similar to the cross, but with a few scattered clasts up to 10 mm. It does not match stone from an outcrop close by, but does match some of the stones that have been incorporated into the field walls. Millstone Grit, Carboniferous.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 716-8
Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 260
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The shaft and lower arms form a Latin cross of type A1; they carry no decoration. The upper arm takes on a V shape with very rounded edges and traces of two mouldings running over each 'wing'.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
Edwards (B. 1978a, 54) has drawn attention to a similar cross at Ardfert, Co. Kerry. The V-shaped upper arm might allude to the concept of the 'fork-shaped yokes' of the cross invoked by Aldhelm in a verse quatrain quoted in his De Virginitate (Howlett 2006, 320).
