NHER 4550 (Structure record) - Medieval wayside cross

NW of village.
Cross; Bronze Age sherds and flint.
Cross is about 1.4m high. A fragment in the church (NHER 4547) is said without any evidence to come from it. Knocked over by a cart in 1910 and reset further back in iron railings. See (S1).

October 1950.
R. R. Clarke (NCM) recorded that the cross stood on a low mound about 1m (3 feet) high, 27m (90 feet) diameter, where fragments of Bronze Age pottery and flint flakes had been found.

22 August 1979. Field Observation.
Visited by E. Rose (NAU).
Cross is base and lower shaft formed from one block, octagonal chamfered to square at base. Traces of attachment of upper shaft. No trace of mound, cross stands on roadside bank which is indeed 1m (3 feet) high above roadway but which continues all along it. However no iron railings either, has the road been widened and altered? Probably not, railings were removed in 1942 for war scrap.
E. Rose (NAU) 2 December 1985.

October 1985. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
"Cross 550 metres north-east of Church of St Mary [NHER 4547]. Cross shaft and base. Medieval. Limestone. Truncated octagonal shaft forming broach stops at transition to square base."
Information from (S2).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S2) for the current listing details.
by P. Watkins (HES), 5 May 2022.

July 1990. Scheduled.
Scheduling description:
The monument includes a medieval standing cross situated on the northern side of the road which leads from Swaffham Road to the village, approximately 65m north west of the junction between this road and two others. The cross, which is Listed Grade II, includes a socket stone and the lower part of the cross shaft, both of limestone. The socket stone at the base is now largely buried but the upper surface of it is partly visible and is roughly square, measuring about 0.7m across. It supports the surviving part of the shaft, set into a square socket in the upper part of the surface of the stone. The shaft stands to a height of 1.4m above this and is approximately 0.34m square at the base, rising through weathered stop angles to a slightly tapering octagonal column.
Information from (S3) and (S4).
H. Mellor (HES), 5 July 2018.