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Object type: Cross-shaft fragment in two joining pieces
Measurements: H. 6.5 cm (2.5 in); W. 6.1 cm (2.4 in); D. 3.3 cm (1.3 in)
Stone type: Greyish orange pink (10R 8/2) variably grain to matrix supported shelly oolite. Matrix is sparry. Mostly solid ooliths with some peloids or intraclasts. Many of the peloids, intraclasts and ooliths are red stained but not the matrix. The ooliths range in size from 0.2 to 1.2 mm and the peloids/ intraclasts are up to 2 mm in size. Shell fragments range from 1 to 4 mm in size. Shell debris mainly from bivalves and brachiopods with some cidarid spines. The pink colour suggests that the stone has been in a fire. Cleeve Cloud Member, Birdlip Limestone Formation, Inferior Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 259-60
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 206-7
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A: Two joining fragments with the remains of a carved animal-head snout pointing down across a narrow plain horizontal border which divided this panel from a lower one. The larger fragment is edged with a broad cable moulding.
The animal head on this fragment is very similar to the 'salamanders' on face B of a cross from St Oswald's Priory (Gloucester St Oswald 3, Ill. 286), although the pupils of the eyes have been drilled on this stone. It is also very similar to several of the animal label-stops from Deerhurst St Mary (nos. 13, 14, 16–18). It is possible that this fragment is actually part of Gloucester St Oswald 4 which also carries a broad cable edge moulding (Ills. 287–90).
