Unknown

Recovered from Elton Moor and purchased by Bateman (1855, 185). Along with the other pieces of Anglo-Saxon sculpture in his collection the cross-head was deposited, on loan to the City Corporation, in the Public Museum at Weston Park in Sheffield after Bateman's death in 1876. Subsequently, in 1893, when the Bateman family arranged for the sale of the collection, all objects collected from Derbyshire by Thomas Bateman and his father were purchased by the Corporation. This included Elton Moor 1 which, along with Bakewell 30 was subsequently returned to the church, where Bakewell 30 remains; Elton Moor 1 is missing (see Bakewell 2, p. 113).

Unknown. At the time of survey the piece was worn and weathered with only one complete arm.

Part of a relatively small cross-head. An iron rod extended from one of the truncated cross-arms, which probably resulted from an attempt to reconstruct a cross at some time in the past.

A (broad): This face is decorated on the surviving arm by a simple interlace pattern arranged as a trefoil motif with v-bend terminals which appears to be a closed-circuit pattern, although it is worn. At the centre is a protruding central boss with the hint of a thin moulding surrounding it. A further thin moulding surrounds the periphery of the cross-arms and trefoil pattern. The stubs of the other two cross-arms are visible, including that containing the iron rod, described above. Three arm pits are visible, the fourth broken away. There appears to have been decoration on the arm-pit stubs, although this is too worn to decipher.

B (narrow) and E (top): The other two cross-arms are broken away.

C (broad): Decorated with a central boss surrounded by a thin moulding, as on A. On the surviving arms is a hint of decoration but this is now too badly worn to decipher. However, it could well have been a simple interlace pattern arranged as a trefoil motif as on A. There is a thin moulding around the periphery of the cross-arms and the circle arm-pits between them. The stubs of the remaining two cross-arms are visible, including that containing the iron rod, and four arm pits are visible. There appears to have been decoration on the arm pits, although this is too worn to decipher.

D (narrow): Undecorated and worn

F (bottom): Broken away. There is no surviving evidence for the shaft.

This cross-head is one of only a few surviving from the region, and like those at Rowsley and One Ash in Derbyshire and that at Leek (5) in Staffordshire was type D11 (Cramp 1991, xiv), sharing with them a common form of decoration and central boss (see Ills. 237-42, 408-9, 579-81). The size of this cross-head (and its counterparts) suggests that it surmounted a relatively small cross-shaft.

Probably tenth century

Bateman 1847b, 305; Bateman 1848, 172; Bateman 1855, 185; Collingwood 1927, 90; Routh 1937a, 14–15; Routh 1937b, 16; Sidebottom 1994, 121, 148, 226 (Bakewell 30); Sharpe 2002, 109–10; Bailey 2010, 61