Description of stone
Event ID 1008410
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1008410
Latheron 3, Caithness, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.69m, W 0.33m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: ND 1981 3315
Present location: West Byres, Latheron
Evidence for discovery: found built into the W wall of a barn.
Present condition: broken but carving good.
Description
The shaft and central part of cross-head of an incised cross survives, with closed-circle armpits (5mm in diameter), and a hint that the arms were expanded.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
