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Object type: Part of centre and lower arm of cross-head [1]
Measurements: H. 23.5 cm (9.2 in); W. max. 21 cm (8.3 in); D. 12 cm (4.7 in)
Stone type: Sandstone, buff-brown colour, coarse to very coarse with sporadic, granular quartz grains, quartz cemented. Upper Carboniferous, Millstone Grit Group, Addingham Edge Grit? [G.L.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 615-6
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 224-5
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Identifiable as part of a cross-head by the survival of part of a central circle on face A, and by part of an edge moulding for an armpit on the lower left. The form of the head is unknown. The carving is shallow with little modelling.
A (broad): The lower part of an apparently frontal figure in a short tunic, with both feet pointing to the right, survives above what appears to be the moulding defining the central circle of a cross-head. Below is the termination of an animal interlace, with a small head on the right biting its own or another's tail.
B and D (narrow): Missing
C (broad): This face seems to show only an irregular interlace filling the whole area without definition of a centre.
The tangled interlace and figural style suggest a tenth-century date. The stunted figure is reminiscent of the secular figure on Otley 6 and that at Weston across the river (Ills. 608, 777, 781). However, this is more likely to be of Christian significance if it is indeed from the central roundel of a cross-head: possibly even a figure of Christ, although the short dress would be unusual. Its iconography is irrecoverable, however.
