Bute, St Blane's
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Bute, St Blane's
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Carved Stone 3
Canmore ID 301989
Site Number NS05SE 5.03
NGR NS 09485 53414
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/301989
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kingarth
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Buteshire
Reference (1893)
Reference (1900)
Reference (1903)
Reference (1984)
Photographic Record (1991)
Measured Survey (1992 - 1994)
Reference (2001)
Slab lying in a walled enclosure in the lower churchyard. It lacks the top and is damaged at the foot, measuring 2.05m by 0.91m and 60mm in thickness. The lowest 0.6m is plain, suggesting that the slab was intended to stand upright, but above this at each edge there is an incised 70mm margin separated by a plain strip from a double groove which forms an inner moulding. Set in the upper part of the central panel thus defined there is an interlaced equal-armed cross. This is composed of paired bands, each double-beaded, which form Stafford knots at the terminals and enclose small bosses at the centre and in the arms.
(Hewison 1893, 1, 220; Anderson 1900, 317 and fig.19 on p.318; Allen and Anderson 1903, 3, 407, no.3 and fig.427 on p.409; Schultz album, pl.11; Cross 1984, B15).
Fisher 2001.