Hawsker Cross

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Hawsker Cross is thought to date from the 10th century, when a church or chapel may have stood on this site, it is missing the original cross-head.

Hawsker

My snapshot doesn’t do the carvings justice, but they have further worn since these drawing were made about a century ago.

Hawsker YAJ21WG Collingwood
Anglian & Anglo-Danish Sculpture in the East Riding with addenda to the North Riding. W.G. Collingwood. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol. 21 1911. Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Leeds

The patterns are said to show strong Scandinavian influences, which would have arrived with the Danes/Vikings in Whitby after 867.