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Coldingham Description of stone
Event ID 1007521
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1007521
Coldingham, Gosmount, Berwickshire, cross-shaft fragment
Measurements: H 0.38m, W 0.36m, D 0.18m
Stone type: red sandstone
Place of discovery: NT c 903 659
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (IB 44)
Evidence for discovery: found re-used in the wall of Gosmount farmhouse near Coldingham sometime before 1852.
Present condition: broken and worn.
Description
This is a small portion of a cross-shaft, carved in relief on all four faces within a plain flat band moulding and an inner roll moulding. Face A bears interlace with diagonal strands and faces B and D also bear interlace patterns. Face C shows parts of two intertwined animals with double incised lines on their bodies.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
