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Object type: Fragment of cross-shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 52 cm (20.5 in); W. 34.2 cm (13.5 in); D. 28.5 > 27 cm (11.25 > 10.6 in)
Stone type: Fine-grained, light yellowish-brown to brownish-yellow (10YR 6/4–6/6) sandstone; deltaic channel sandstone, Saltwick Formation, Aalenian, Middle Jurassic; probably from North Yorkshire Moors
Plate numbers in printed volume: 659-660
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 179
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B (narrow): The lower part of the fragment is undecorated. The bar terminal of a four-cord interlace survives, using very broad, median-incised strands. Too little survives to be able to identify the pattern, but it may well have been free rings and long diagonals, or a form of simple pattern F.
F (bottom): Perhaps recut when reused as a quoin.
The thickness of the shaft is noticeable. The unadventurous interlace in broad, median-incised strands probably relates the shaft to the cross-arm, no. 2, and both belong to the Anglo-Scandinavian period, when median-incised closed circuit patterns were much in fashion.
