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Submitted by Anne T on Monday, 17 September 2018 Page Views: 1403
Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Ulgham Cross Alternative Name: Ulgham Village CrossCountry: England County: Northumberland Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Morpeth / Ashington Nearest Village: Ulgham
Map Ref: NZ2321892308
Latitude: 55.224455N Longitude: 1.636553W
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 |
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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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Anne T visited on 16th Sep 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Ulgham Cross, Near Ashington, Northumberland: From Newbeggin By The Sea, we headed inland to try and find this cross, which we thought was near the church. In typical Tate fashion, we'd arrived when there was a Sculpture Show at the Church; as they were charging to go in, we declined, and set off to find this cross, which is around 320m WSW of the church of St John The Baptist.
The photographs we'd seen of the cross had black painted iron railings in front of it, and we were temporarily confused as these have now been removed. This cross is located just west of the junction of Ulgham Lane with the B1337, in front of two modern bungalows. With the railings no longer in place, I walked up the four steps and had a look at the back of the cross. It looks as if it’s had a hard life and has numerous holes and weathering. It looked to my untrained eye as if it might have been a repurposed standing stone.
Much to the amusement of the passing traffic, I darted in and out of the road to try and get the best photographs I could, as the sunlight behind the cross was dazzling.
This village cross is sited just west of the junction of Ulgham Lane with the B1337, just outside two modern bungalows, set back in a recess in the roadside wall.
Recorded as Historic England List ID 1156380 and Pastscape Monument 1399279, we are told this "plain Saxo Norman cross shaft was discovered in 1891-92 in a garden at Ulgham". It is grade II listed, and stands on top of four steps, and has an overall height of 3m.
The photographs we'd seen of this cross shaft had it placed behind iron railings, but these have been removed. A plaque, which looks as if it has been recently placed, reads: "Ulgham Village Cross. This is possibly a “preacher’s cross” erected by itinerant monks from Lindisfarne in the middle of the Village green. The head of the cross could have been broken off by Roundhead troops who patrolled the area in the 1640s.”
The Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture records this as Ulgham, adding that it is of uncertain date, as there are no diagnostic features, but it "could be as early as the eleventh century … (similar to) the boundary crosses of the North York Moors."
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