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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Skelton Cross Alternative Name: The Whipping PostCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 4.421 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Village: Skelton (Cleveland)
Map Ref: NZ6552818871
Latitude: 54.560839N Longitude: 0.988186W
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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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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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Located within the village at Town Green. though locally sometimes called Skelton Cross Green, it was once at the heart of the village. However due to expansion and development beginning in the mid 19C and continuing to this day it has now found itself at the western edge of the village.
This is Pastscape Monument 28265 which tells us that it is the remains of a 14C market cross 2.0m high and 0.3m square, slightly tapering with chamfered corners. There were originally four iron straps, of unknown purpose, on the sides near the top, but two are now missing. There is no trace of a socket stone.
If you asked a resident where the cross was, they would probably point you to the war memorial next to it because this cross is actually known locally as the Whipping Post, so it doesn’t take too much to figure out what the iron straps were probably for. Also according to an article in a 1906 Parish Magazine the village stocks stood close by “within living memory” See HERE for source information. Public whipping for women ceased in 1817 and for men in 1830.
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