(NY 79967363) Kimmin's Cross. (1)

[Cross symbol shown in approximately the same position as given by authority 1]. (2)

Cumming Cross, situated two miles north of Sewingshields. The legend regarding this upright stone is as follows:- 'Cumming (or Kimmin), a northern chieftan, having one day paid a visit to King Arthur at his castle near Sewingshields was kindly received and presented with a gold cup as a token of lasting friendship. The King's sons coming in and hearing what their father had done, set out in pursuit of Cumming. They overtook him and slew him at this place which has born the name of Cumming Cross ever since'. (3)

Comyns Cross, situated on Haughton Common. Within a stone wall there is at least one fragment of a wayside cross whose foundations and perhaps part of its base can still be seen a few yards south of the wall, that is on the west side of the southern entrance to the gap in the ridge.
'A local legend, improved by Arthurian colouring after the name of Comyn had lost significance in Tynedale, connects the cross with a tale of treachery. [Legend as in authority 3 follows]. The story may be founded on fact, and there can be little doubt the cross was set up by or for one of the Comyns of Tarset and Walwick, lands obtained with others in Tynedale by Richard Comyn, when he wedded the well-dowered Hextilde, daughter of Uchtred, but it may have been intended as a boundary stone or a landmark, and not necessarily as a personal memorial'. Comyn is supposed to be derived from Commines in Flanders. The orthography given by the Ordnance Survey is rather doubtful. (4)

Fragment of a cross shaft in the fence dividing afforested land from open moorland, and adjacent to a stone gatepost. It stands 0.8m high, 0.3m square in cross-section, with the corners chamfered off. On the south face is a line of six small rosettes down the centre, and halfway three similar rosettes in a horizontal line to form a cross design. It is very weathered and the top has a fractured surface. No trace was seen of other fragments. (5)

Condition unchanged. Correctly published on 6 inch. (6)

The cross shaft is as described by authority 3. The name was not confirmed. Surveyed at 1:10,000. (7)

Part of the shaft of a medieval cross built into the wall marking the southern boundary of Wark Forest. No socket or base, the shaft may have been moved to its present site. The bottom of the south face has a primitive cross picked out with small circular depressions. (8)

Site noted, but not visited, as part of a Farm Environment Plan, where assessed as in a poor condition. (9)

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