The Corpus: Ilkley 10

Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: Ilkley 10, West Riding of Yorkshire

Overview

Object type: Fragment of cross-arm [1]

Measurements: H. 29 cm (11.4 in); W. 30 cm (11.8 in); D. 13 cm (5.1 in)

Stone type: Sandstone, pale buff-brown colour, medium to coarse, quartzose with subordinate feldspar grains. Slightly micaceous. Cross lamination evident in fragment. Upper Carboniferous, Millstone Grit Group. [G.L.]

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 369-72

Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 177

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Present Location

As Ilkley 4

Evidence for Discovery

See Ilkley 4. Kept in Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley for some years, until 2006.

Church Dedication

All Saints

Present Condition

A very worn fragment

Description

Part of one arm of a cross-head, probably type A9, with cable-moulded angles.

A (broad): This face has fine modelled interlacing strands, now too worn to determine whether they were originally strands of plant or abstract interlace.

B (narrow): Missing

C (broad): Plain except for its cabled border

D (narrow): This side of the arm is decorated, and suggests that the fragment is from the upper arm of a cross. The cabled edge frames a register of fine modelled interlace, a plain plait with one break.

E or F (top or bottom?): This face was also decorated, which may imply it is the side of the arm which would be seen from below. It is very worn but could have been a fine plait as on face D.

Discussion

Adcock (1974, I, 105) put this forward as a possible head for Ilkley 4a–b (Ills. 345–52). In terms of size and fineness of strand, and the style and cutting of the cable-moulded edge, this is not impossible. See Ilkley 4a–b for discussion.

Date

Eighth century

References

Allen 1884a, 166, 167, 171, fig. C facing 166; Allen and Browne 1885, 353; Collyer and Horsfall Turner 1885, fig. C facing 48; Allen 1890, 301; Allen 1891, 169, no. 8; Collingwood 1912, 129; Collingwood 1915a, 194, 267, 279, figs. a–b on 194; Adcock 1974, I, 105

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Ilkley stones: Camden 1607, 567–8; Gough 1789, III, 239; Whitaker 1812, 217; Hatton and Fox 1880, 12; Browne 1880–4a, lxxiv; (–––) 1882a, 384; Cobley 1882, 127–8; Allen 1883, 53–6; Allen 1884, 158–61; Allen and Browne 1885, 353; Browne 1885c, 157; Allen 1889, 12, 158, 226, 227; Allen 1890, 293, 295; Irvine 1894, 328–9; Bogg 1904, fig. on 31; MacMichael 1906, 362; Collingwood 1915b, 328, 331; Browne 1916, 50; Collingwood 1932, 51, 53; Brown 1937, 213; Pevsner 1959, 20, 277; Taylor, H. M., 1968a, 330; Faull 1981, 218, 219; Faull 1986b, 29, 31, 37–40, pl. IX; Ryder 1991, 30; Ryder 1993, 160; Cambridge 1995b, 146–7; Hadley 2000a, 237, 238; Hawkes 2003a, 81–2; Butler 2006, 93.