Volume 2: Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire-North-of-the-Sands

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Current Display: Distington 04, Cumberland Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
In church
Evidence for Discovery
See no. 1.
Church Dedication
Holy Spirit
Present Condition
Heavily worn on face C
Description

Tip of cross-arm of unknown type.

A (Broad): The ornament was framed by a roll moulding and consisted of an encircled boss (probably part of a cruciform head-pattern of types 2 or 3b (see Fig. 7)) surrounded by spiral-scroll.
B (narrow): Plain.
C (broad): Traces of relief decoration bordered by a roll moulding.
D (narrow): Cut away.

Discussion

Spiral-scroll school (Introduction, pp. 33–8).

Date
Tenth to eleventh century
References
Calverley 1891c, 230, 233–4 and fig. V; Calverley 1899a, 133–4, pl. facing 134; Kermode 1907, 30; Collingwood 1901a, 259; Scott 1920, 95; Collingwood 1923c, 257; Collingwood 1927a, 96; Fair 1950, 95–6; Bailey 1974a, i, 47–80, II, 109, pls.
Endnotes

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