The upper and lateral arms of a ring-head Anglo-Scandinavian cross-head with Crucifixion scene, re-used as grave marker in 1698. The front of the cross depicts Christ with a spade-shaped face with ‘hook and eye’ features and a slit mouth. The hair or nimbus is in the form of a flat cap filling the available space. Christ’s hands are large and spread. A recessed ring lies close to the arm-pits and has a modelled edge moulding on each edge, flanking a run of curving step-pattern. The reverse has a flattened boss almost in the centre of the cross and a free-hand interlace moulding. This wheel-headed cross has many Irish characteristics. The cross is made with a yellowish brown medium-grained, well sorted deltaic sandstone with sub-angular grains. The nearest source of this sandstone is the Cleveland Hills, particulary above Swainby. Dated to the first half of the 10th century.
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