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Object type: Slab
Measurements: H. 169 cm (66.5 in); W. 61 > 49 cm (24 > 19.5 in); D. 31 > 18 cm (12.25 > 7 in)
Stone type: Medium- (0.3 mm) to very coarse-grained (up to 1.5 mm), but mostly coarse-grained in the range 0.5 to 0.8 mm), angular to sub-angular, clast-supported quartz sandstone; a few scattered white (?kaolinised) feldspars. Millstone Grit Group, Carboniferous
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 384-7
Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 143-4
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Upright roughly squared slab with decoration on two broad faces.
A (broad): At the top of the stone is a simple Latin cross, type A1, raised in relief against a sunken square panel. Below are various later graffiti: 08; 4; 1887; P, together with an O.S. bench mark at the base.
C (broad): A similar cross to that on face A
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
Sharpe (2002, 45) speculated that the present stone, which he sees as a way-marker, may have replaced an earlier cross; there is no evidence for this. Lacking diagnostic features the stone is difficult to date, though many writers have accepted it as an Anglo-Saxon monument.
