It is shown from zero magnetic field Mössbauer spectroscopy that the mixed ferrimagnetic-spin glass phase observed in SrFe12–x CrxO19 hexagonal ferrites is characterized by longitudinal spin components contributing to the ferrimagnetic long range magnetic ordering and transverse spin components contributing to the spin glass ordering. It is argued as well that different sublattices could behave in a different way owing to their different degree of magnetic frustration.