Volume 13: Derbyshire and Staffordshire
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Current Display: Checkley 3, Staffordshire
Overview
Object type: Part of shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 143 cm (56.3 in); W. 44 > 33 cm (17.3 > 12.9 in); D. 33 > 23 cm (12.9 > 9 in)
Stone type: Well-sorted, fine- to medium-grained white to grayish orange pink sandstone (5YR 8/1–8/2) with fine cross bedding. Pale well-cemented from of Hollington Formation, Sherwood Sandstone Group, Triassic (R.T.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 519, 530
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 280-281
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Present Location
Churchyard, south-west of church (stone nearest church)
Evidence for Discovery
See Checkley 1.
Church Dedication
St Mary and All Saints
Present Condition
Worn and weathered so that almost no decoration survives.
Description
A (broad): Worn smooth with pitting or small depressions suggesting interlace, but nothing diagnostic survives.
B (narrow): Also worn smooth with only a ‘hint’ of former plait-work or interlace surviving at the top.
C (Broad): Worn smooth with pitting or small depressions suggesting interlace, but nothing diagnostic survives.
D (narrow): This face is plain and shows signs of advanced weathering.
Discussion
The remains of this shaft are now too worn and weathered to provide any scope for discussion. Only the shape and dimensions indicate that it was an Anglo-Saxon cross shaft.
Date
Unclear, but possibly of similar date to Checkley 1 and 2
References
Camden 1610, 587; Plot 1686, 432–3, pl. XXXIII.9; Pape 1946–7: 24–7; Sidebottom 1994, 149, 239 (Checkley 3)
J.H.; P.S.
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to Checkley 1–3: Camden 1610, 587; Plot 1686, 432–3, pl. XXXIII. 10; Camden 1722, I, 469; Cox 1730, 79, 95, 99–100, 101; Lyttelton 1773, 51–2; Pegge 1779, 97; Camden 1806, II, 498, 515; Dugdale 1819, IV, 261; Erdeswick 1820, 367, 380; Gresley 1860; Spode 1860; Sleigh 1862, 78; Redfern 1865, 348–51, pl. facing 454; Daltry 1875, 5; Lynam 1875, 23–4; Lynam 1877a, pl. following 436; (—) 1879b, 35; (—) 1880–1, pl. on 33; Lynam 1881, 90; (—) 1885a, 387; Allen and Browne 1885, 356; Browne 1885a, 258; Redfern 1886, 454–7; Browne 1887a, 287–9; Browne 1887b, 155; (—) 1888b, 315–6; Browne 1888c, 17–18; Allen 1889, 227; Browne 1889, 4; (—) 1893, 143–4; Lynam 1895a, 146; Lynam 1895b, 156; Wrottesley 1901–2, 134; Mansfield 1901–2, 149; (—) 1902–3, 145; Hopkins 1902–3, 117; Allen 1903, 101–2; Le Blanc Smith 1905b, 97; Lynam 1913–14, 201; (—) 1914–15, 205; Lynam 1917–18, 148; (—) 1920–1, 117; Beckett 1921–2, 140; (—) 1923–4b, 148, 152; (—) 1925–6, 204; Collingwood 1927, 134; Kendrick 1941, 12 n.2; (—) 1942–3, 62; Pape 1945–6, 25–6; Steele 1947–8a, pls. XIV.8, XV; Steele 1947–8b, 172; Kendrick 1949, 71, 78; Pevsner 1974, 100; Cramp 1977, 224; Leonard 1993, 17; Leonard 1995, 11–12, 84; Hawkes 2002a, 125, 132, 141
