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Description of stone
Event ID 1008417
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1008417
Mid Clyth 1, Caithness, cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.04m, W 0.58m, D 0.13m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: ND 2939 3728
Present location: built into a byre at Roadside Farm.
Evidence for discovery: found built into a stone dyke, the slab was built into a horse mill sometime before 1910. When the horse mill was dismantled in 1930, the stone was built into the corner of a byre.
Present condition: deteriorating from water damage.
Description
One face bears a pecked outline cross with circular terminals to the arms.
Date: eighth century.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
