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Object type: Cross-head [1]
Measurements: H. c. 20.5 cm (8.1 in) W. c. 29.5 cm (11.6 in) D. Built in
Stone type: As Kirby Hill 7 (All Saints, Kirkby-on-the-Moor) , except that the stone has probably been burnt to a pink colour (5YR 8/3). Stone provenance as Kirby Hill 1 (All Saints, Kirkby-on-the-Moor)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 349
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 132
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A (broad) : The edge moulding is modelled. In the centre of the cross is a circle in modelled strand with a central pellet ringed by six other pellets, forming a rosette. The stumpy upper arm may have two worn pellets, side by side. The chamfered lateral arms are difficult to decipher but Collingwood's drawing shows a kind of buckle knot in each limb. This may be a misreading of a twin-link, as on the head of no. 1 above. The arm-pits of this free-armed head are roughly cut in wide angular arcs.
There are echoes of Kirby Hill 1 (Ills. 345, 347) in the use of pellets and ring but these are more crudely cut. The monument must have been small, perhaps the size of the Lythe series that accompanied the hogbacks (p. 49). Buckle knots are uncommon in Yorkshire and may be late.
