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Object type: Cross-base
Measurements:
H. 55 cm (21.7 in); W. c. 60 cm (23.6 in); D. 61 cm (24 in)
Socket hole: 36 x 36 x 13 cm deep (14.1 x 14.1 x 5.1 in)
Stone type: Similar to Tideswell 1, but slightly coarser. Very poorly sorted, clast-supported, yellowish grey (5Y 7/2), the sub-angular to sub-rounded grains range from 0.3 to 3 mm across, but are mostly between 0.4 and 1.0 mm across. Millstone Grit Group, Carboniferous (C.R.B.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 479–80
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 261
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A plain stone cross-base with only two faces visible, the other two being obscured by the stones forming the drystone wall. No decoration is discernible. The sides are vertical but rounded at the top and corners, which are not chamfered.
Appendix D item (plain cross-bases)
The cross-base is described by the Derbyshire Historic Environment Record as ‘Medieval’ and considered to be post-Conquest. The shaft (Tideswell 1), however, may be Anglo-Saxon and the two are of similar stone types. Nevertheless, the socket hole is square which suggests that it was not made for a pre-Conquest shaft, usually rectangular in section, and the dimensions of the shaft suggest it is not related to the base.
