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Object type: Cross-arm fragment
Measurements: Unobtainable
Stone type: Unobtainable
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 291-2
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Three fragments of pre-Conquest crosses were recovered from excavations in 1955 by A. Paget-Baggs for the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate of the Ministry of Works in the area of the Lady Chapel of the Minster (demolished in the sixteenth century), in advance of building cottages which now occupy part of the area (Hall 1995, 15).
The site lies to the north of the present east end of the Minster, west of St Marygate near its north end. The carved stone cross fragments were found within the southern half of the chancel: these were not in situ and could not be related directly to any of the graves in the same part of the building (Hall and Whyman 1996, 125). Two of these are now in the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate and are discussed and illustrated in the main catalogue (Ripon 5 and 6, p. 237, Ills. 647–9, 650–4); but a piece of cable moulding grouped with them in the museum (Ripon 11, p. 241, Ills. 645–6) is not the same as the third fragment noted in 1955.
Appendix C (Lost stones for which no illustration has survived)
This fragment was described by the excavator as a 'small corner of an arm with strapwork', possibly but not probably part of Ripon 5 because 'the intertwining of the decoration is rather more open' (Hall and Whyman 1996, 127–8). If the similarity is accepted, then this piece is likely to have been as early as Ripon 5 and 6.
