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Description of stone
Event ID 1008415
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1008415
Lybster, Caithness, cross-marked boulder
Measurements: L 0.91m, W 0.66m
Stone type: yellow sandstone
Place of discovery: ND c 247355
Present location: Lybster Central Church.
Evidence for discovery: recorded c1726 and in 1910 by RCAHMS, in a field to the NE of Lybster harbour. In 1935 it was moved to Lybster Congregational Church graveyard, and thence in 1972 or 1973 to Lybster Central Church.
Present condition: good
Description
A natural boulder on which an equal-armed cross had been cut, with an internal cross of the same shape.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
