Cross in Corwen churchyard, Denbighshire. The top of the cross is missing, meaning that most of the evidence that the ornamentation might provide about the date of the cross is not available. Such ornamentation as has survived appears to be simple plaits and, as such, it could belong to any period from about the ninth century to the sixteenth. It may have been a preaching cross erected before the church was begun in the thirteenth century. The lower part of the shaft is four-sided, with rounded corners and bevelled edges. An unusual feature is that one of the faces of the cross also carries a carving of a cross or dagger. The form of this dagger-cross may indicate a link with the time of the Crusades. Otherwise, the sides of the lower shaft are undecorated. 咄ortean / TopFoto