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On the sill of the north window are fragments of great antiquity. Two of these are parts of a free-armed stone crucifix and the others are of the shaft and head of stone cross ornamented with leaves encircling a centre boss. These constitute the most ancient surviving workmanship of a man in Great Ayton. Exhibiting strap-interlacing work, they are developed Anglo-Saxon sculpture and are assigned to the late 8th century. They are thus dated before the Danish Invasion, which, beginning in 787, brought disaster upon the church.