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Object type: Shaft or grave-marker fragment [1] [2]
Measurements: H. 33 cm (13 in) W. 16 cm (6.3 in) D. Built in
Stone type: As Crathorne 1 (All Saints) but without the presence of dark brown limonite segregations
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 127
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 85
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A (broad) : A cabled edge moulding runs along the left side and the top of the shaft. The right side has a plain edge moulding. Within this frame at the top is a free-armed cross, type B6 cut in low relief. Below this, within a plain border, is a squared scroll coil, again in relief. The pattern below is incomplete, but there appears to be a rectangular frame enclosing an arc.
Judging from the width of this piece it seems likely that the visible panel is the side of a shaft. The presence of a cable moulding on one side only might suggest that it was intended to be viewed from one direction, making ornamentation on the back unnecessary. The free-armed cross is an Anglian form, but it did survive into the period of Anglo-Scandinavian control and its association with the thick scroll indicates an Anglo-Scandinavian date.
[1] The following are general references to the Crathorne stones: Bulmer 1890, 118; Hodges 1894, 195; Allen 1895, 148; Morris, J. 1904, 420; Collingwood 1908, 120; Page, W. 1923, 236 fn, 237; Morris, J. 1931, 417; Morris, C. 1976a, 141; Brown, M. 1979, 41; Lang 1984a, 87.
[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 2: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 521 (Romilly Allen collection).
