Birnie Parish Church
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Birnie Parish Church
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 319305
Site Number NJ25NW 1.06
NGR NJ 20654 58718
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Moray
- Parish Birnie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Birnie 3 (St Brendan), Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: 0.15m by 0.15m, D 0.05m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ 2063 5873
Present location: lost
Evidence for discovery: found in the early nineteenth century and taken into the church. Lost sometime before 1971.
Present condition: all edges were broken.
Description
This fragment was carved in relief on one side with part of an interlace design.
Date range: early medieval
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 136-7.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Desk Based Assessment
Four Class III fragments, two of them probably from the same upright cross-slab, are preserved within the church.
Information from OS
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1896-7; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; A D S MacDonald and L R Laing 1973
