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Object type: Part of cross-head
Measurements: H. 31.5 cm (12.5 in); W. 41 cm (16.25 in); D. 17.5 cm (7 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained red sandstone (St Bees (Kirklinton) sandstone)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 632–5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 166
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Only one face is carved. The arm type is B8 and the centre of the cross is large and circular.
A (broad): In the centre of the head is a deeply cut ten petalled rosette with a cross in the centre and surrounded by a pelleted ring. Each of the arms is surrounded by a flat-band moulding and contains an elaborate composite leaf flower. In the upper vertical arm this is composed of single pointed leaves and a bud. In the left arm the leaves or petals are elaborately veined and upcurved; in the right arm they curve down.
B–D: Smoothly dressed.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
The shape of this head with a large centre and V-shaped arm-pits tends to be late in the pre-Conquest period or transitional. The elaborate leaf-flowers seem to be a feature of this region which continue in changing styles from early work at Bewcastle to late work such as this and Whitehaven (nos. 1–2).
==R.J.C.
