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Object type: Round-headed grave-marker with shaft, or finial cross [1]
Measurements: H. 29.5 cm (11.6 in); W. max. 27 cm (10.6 in); D. 6.4 cm (2.5 in)
Stone type: Sandstone pale yellow-buff, medium - to coarse-grained, quartz-cemented, with feldspar and sparse mica. Local Millstone Grit Group. [G.L.]
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 796-9
Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 273
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An incomplete grave-marker or finial, lacking its shaft. The back and sides are dressed completely plain.
A (broad): The round, plate-like head is dressed back smoothly around a raised cross of type E6. The crossing of the arms is overlain by a flattened roundel with a compass mark at its centre.
Appendix A item (Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
See Adel 1, but the raised cross is more typical of the overlap grave- markers cited there than the remainder of the Adel pieces. The narrow rectangular shaft could suggest this was a finial cross rather than a grave-marker. A piece from Heddon -on-the-Wall, Northumberland, is almost identical in form (Cramp 1984, 241–2, pl. 237.1342–3).
