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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Whitby Cross Alternative Name: Abbey Cross (Whitby); Whitby Abbey CrossCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 83.002 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Whitby
Map Ref: NZ90231129
Latitude: 54.488934N Longitude: 0.608618W
Condition:
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 |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Ancient cross near Whitby. It is under the shadow of the atmospheric abbey. The site is right next to the abbey entrance and the entrance to St Mary's Church graveyard. The base is the oldest part of the cross.
This cross is recorded as part of Historic England List ID 1017941, which gives the history of the Abbey, but says only this about the cross: "North of the church on Abbey Plain is a fourteenth century cross on a plinth of six steps. Although the head is gone, the panelled shaft and capital are well-preserved". The Journal of Antiquities makes a brief mention of this cross right at the very end of their entry for Caedmon’s Cross, Whitby, North Yorkshire.
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