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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Oxenhope Cross (West Yorkshire)Country: England County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Keighley Nearest Village: Oxenhope
Map Ref: SE03103520
Latitude: 53.813077N Longitude: 1.954401W
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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Ancient Cross in Yorkshire (West)
The very weathered remains of a roughly dressed cross head are built into the western wall of a lane near the top of Cross Lane, near to the primary school at Oxenhope. It is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 47914, which tells us the stone measures only 15ins high and 24ins wide, and that "very little is known of its history".
The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for The Oxenhope Cross, Oxenhope, West Yorkshire, which includes photographs, a drawing of the cross (they report it is very easy to miss as it blends in with the rest of the wall), and a link to the Oxenhope Village history website. The JoA tells us the first record of the cross comes from the early 1830s, but it could be much earlier; there are more wayside crosses (plain and carved) on the moors around here.
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