Description of stone
Date 11 May 2016
Event ID 1010289
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010289
Dunblane 2 (St Blane), Perthshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.84m, W 0.51m, D 0.20m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NN 7817 0139
Present location: in Dunblane Cathedral.
Evidence for discovery: found during restoration works in 1871 under the Lady Chapel.
Present condition: broken and worn.
Description
This slab may be part of a defaced cross-slab, on which the carving survives only on one narrow face. The latter consists of traces of three areas of pattern: interlace, diagonal key pattern and zoomorphic interlace.
Date: ninth or tenth century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 315-17.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
