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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Aylburton CrossCountry: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Village: Aylburton
Map Ref: SO6172101791
Latitude: 51.713535N Longitude: 2.555448W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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From Gloucestershire KYP: The monument includes a village cross on a five step calvary, situated by the side of the road at a road junction in the village of Aylburton. The cross includes a five step calvary and pedestal. The first step of the calvary is 4.2Sm square and 0.3m high. The other four steps rising from this decrease in size with the top step being 1.lSm square. Each step is c.0.3m high. These five steps are composed of old weathered stone blocks cemented together. Above this is a pedestal or capital. The capital is in the form of four canopied niches c.2m high. The first two steps of the calvary are built of red sandstone; the remainder of the steps and capital of grey forest stone. The total height of the cross is c.3.6m. The stone blocks of the calvary and the capital are early 14th century, but the shaft and head are later. A plate of the cross depicted in Pooley's notes published in 1868 shows the cross in the same condition as today, without socket stone and shaft. Pooley notes that the cross was repaired about 1841.
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