<< Our Photo Pages >> Low Hawsker Cross - Ancient Cross in England in Yorkshire (North)
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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Low Hawsker CrossCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.299 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Whitby Nearest Village: Hawkser
Map Ref: NZ922075 Landranger Map Number: 94
Latitude: 54.454531N Longitude: 0.579398W
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5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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This cross just sneaks under the wire as being acceptable for this collection being tenth century. It sits in an allotment at NZ 92292 07510. The cross shaft is decorated with fine interlace carving on the north, east and south sides, the west side bears a vine scroll carving. On the east and west sides are faint traces of figure carving as well.
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