Manside Cross (Rothley with Hollinghill; Elsdon)
(NY 98529212) Manside Cross (Remains of). (1)
Outside the north-east corner of the camp (NY 99 SE 6) is the socket stone and part of the shaft of a wayside cross.
The socket stone is approximately rectangular measuring 2ft 8-1/2ins x 2ft 5ins x 1ft 7ins high. The socket is 1ft 2-3/4ins x 10ins x 8-1/2ins deep. The long axis of the socket is at right angles to that of the block.
In the socket is a stone shaft about 30ins high, averaging 8ins x 11ins and having its top formed into rough pyramid with a hole 3/5ins diameter and 1-1/4ins deep in its apex. Some modern initials are incised on the shaft, no doubt referring to its use as a boundary stone. The stone appears to have been redressed when the initials were cut. Laying on the socket is a flat stone whose curiously weathered upper surface suggests the remains of a carved crucifix; it may have been part of the cross head.
Manside is the 'Mann's Head' in the Border Survey of 1604. Manside Cross is shown on Armstrong's map of 1769 and that of Greenwood (1828).
It seems possible that a medieval road once joined Manside Cross with Steng Cross. (2)
The description and measurements, as given by Authority 3, are correct, except that the flat stone with traces of a carved crucifix cannot now be found. (There are no surface indications of an early road adjacent to this site as postulated by authority 3). (3)
Condition unchanged. (4)
Scheduled. (5)
Outside the north-east corner of the camp (NY 99 SE 6) is the socket stone and part of the shaft of a wayside cross.
The socket stone is approximately rectangular measuring 2ft 8-1/2ins x 2ft 5ins x 1ft 7ins high. The socket is 1ft 2-3/4ins x 10ins x 8-1/2ins deep. The long axis of the socket is at right angles to that of the block.
In the socket is a stone shaft about 30ins high, averaging 8ins x 11ins and having its top formed into rough pyramid with a hole 3/5ins diameter and 1-1/4ins deep in its apex. Some modern initials are incised on the shaft, no doubt referring to its use as a boundary stone. The stone appears to have been redressed when the initials were cut. Laying on the socket is a flat stone whose curiously weathered upper surface suggests the remains of a carved crucifix; it may have been part of the cross head.
Manside is the 'Mann's Head' in the Border Survey of 1604. Manside Cross is shown on Armstrong's map of 1769 and that of Greenwood (1828).
It seems possible that a medieval road once joined Manside Cross with Steng Cross. (2)
The description and measurements, as given by Authority 3, are correct, except that the flat stone with traces of a carved crucifix cannot now be found. (There are no surface indications of an early road adjacent to this site as postulated by authority 3). (3)
Condition unchanged. (4)
Scheduled. (5)
N9781
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1957; A S Phillips
WATCHING BRIEF, Erection of Wind Monitoring Masts for the Proposed Ray Wind Farm Development 2007; CFA Archaeology Ltd
WATCHING BRIEF, Erection of Wind Monitoring Masts for the Proposed Ray Wind Farm Development 2007; CFA Archaeology Ltd
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