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Object type: Part of cross-head [1][2]
Measurements: H. 31 cm (12.2 in) W. 31 cm (12.2 in) D. 16.5 cm (6.5 in)
Stone type: As Brompton In Allertonshire 9 (St Thomas)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 55–7
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 71
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A (broad) : A wheel-head cross of ring type (a), with type B8 wedge-shaped arms; the arm-pit is also wedge-shaped. The recessed wheel has a three-pellet moulding between flanking plain bands. There is a narrow perimeter plain moulding and each arm is occupied by a 'Brompton loop' connected by its strand to the adjacent arm. An additional looping flat strand frames a broken boss at the centre.
B (narrow): The cross-arm tip has a plain frame containing a closed circuit interlace of pattern B in modelled strand.
C (broad): Within a plain perimeter edge moulding, the design is a better preserved version of face A. The central boss is defaced and is framed by additional loops echoing the adjacent knot.
D (narrow): Lost.
E (top): Very weathered.
The arm-pits of this head are distinctive with their truncated points and straight-edged arms. The form does not conform to the parabolic curve of the template used elsewhere in the Brompton school (Bailey 1978b, 183, fig. 9.11). The angular nature of the form derives from the diagonal grid upon which it is constructed. A minor difference from no. 9 is the set of added strands around the boss.
[1]The following are general references to the Brompton stones: (—) 1867–8, lxxxviii; Rowe 1870, 240; (—) 1871–2, xxiv; Greenwell 1869–79a, lx; Rowe 1877, 61–4; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; Browne 1885–6, 124, 128; Saywell 1886, 481; Allen 1887, 126, 386, fig. 28; (—) 1890–5a, viii; Haverfield and Greenwell 1899, 125–6; Bulmer 1890, 389; Hodges 1894, 195; Morris, J. 1904, 32, 84–5, 420; Bogg 1908, 28–32, ills. on 29 and 32; Page, W. 1914, 430, 431; Morris, J. 1931, 33, 86, 87, 417; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 219–20, 245; Mee 1941, 41–2; Fisher 1959, 89; Pevsner 1966, 90, pl. 8; Bailey 1980, 85, 100, 240, 252, 255, 265; Kerr and Kerr 1982, 38–9 and ill.; Morris, R. 1983, 7; Cramp 1984, 11, 30, 93; Bailey and Cramp 1988, 54; Lang 1988a, 14, 24, 56; Cambridge 1989, 378; Richards 1991, 80, 119, 124, ill. 81; Everson and Stocker 1999, 138; Stocker 2000, 205–6.
[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 10: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, items 501–2 (Romilly Allen collection).
