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Object type: Panel with cross in relief
Measurements: H. c.25 cm (9.8 in); W. c.35 cm (13.8 in); D. unknown
Stone type: Yellowish grey (5Y 7/2) to pale olive (10Y 6/2), weakly calcareous, clast-supported, quartz sandstone. The grains are mainly between 0.2 and 0.6 mm across, but a few are up to 0.8 mm. They vary from sub-angular to sub-rounded and consist of a mixture of clear and milky quartz, with a few small, scattered, feldspar grains. St Maughan's Formation? (Lower Old Red Sandstone Group, Old Red Sandstone Super Group), early Devonian.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 530
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 294
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Cross panel. An equal-arm cross with slightly wedge-shaped arms (type B6) stands in relief against the circular sunken background.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
This carved stone is normally described as a consecration cross, and this is probably the correct identification. However the carved area is not set centrally on the present width of the stone, and, if the stone is turned through 90 degrees it looks very similar to the upper part of a late Anglo-Saxon grave-marker from Keynsham, Somerset (Cramp 2006, 167, ill. 291).
