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St Helen's Description of stone

Event ID 1008359

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1008359

St Helen’s Church 1, Old Cambus, Berwickshire, cross-slab

Measurements:

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NT 80377067

Present location:

Evidence for discovery: recorded in the nave in 1908. Not seen in 2015, but site deep in vegetation.

Present condition:

Description:

Incised on one broad face of an undressed slab is a cross-of-arcs with traces of a square frame.

Date: eighth or ninth century.

Desk-base information compiled by A Ritchie 2016

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