Bute, St Blane's
Cross (Period Unassigned), Grave Marker (Early Medieval)
Site Name Bute, St Blane's
Classification Cross (Period Unassigned), Grave Marker (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Carved Stone 15
Canmore ID 302001
Site Number NS05SE 5.15
NGR NS 09498 53412
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/302001
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kingarth
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Buteshire
Reference (1856)
Field Visit (1893)
Measured Survey (1896)
Reference (1900)
Reference (1984)
Photographic Survey (1991)
Photographic Survey (1993)
Measured Survey (1994)
Reference (2001)
Lower churchyard. Shouldered gravemarker of sandstone with 0.34m disc-head and a roughly-dressed basal slab, 0.8m in overall height and 0.36m in width. On each face the disc bears four oval hollows which form a cross with wide curved arms, having a slight central depression on one face.
(Stuart 1856, 1, pl.73, 1; Hewison 1893, 1, 218; Anderson 1900, 317 and fig.23 on p.319; Schultz album, pl.12c; Cross 1984, B3).
Fisher 2001.
Field Visit (31 March 2010)
This shouldered grave marker, which is situated in the lower graveyard some 32m S of the medieval church (NS05SE 5.00), is as described by Fisher. It and another (NS05SE 5.22), 2m to the S, are two of a handful of medieval grave markers that have not been removed to Bute Museum (NS06SE 122).
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 31 March 2010.
