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Description of stone
Event ID 1008886
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1008886
Skinnet 2 (St Thomas), Caithness, cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.5m, W 0.84m, D 0.13m
Stone type: hard sandstone
Place of discovery: ND 1309 6205
Present location: it stands about 1.8m from the S wall of St Thomas Chapel.
Evidence for discovery: known by 1910 when A O Curle recorded it for RCAHMS.
Present condition: very worn and subject to surface flaking, also covered in lichen.
Description
An earthfast slab of irregular shape, one face has an encircled cross-of-arcs carved in low relief. The upper arm is filled with an interlace knot and traces of similar infilling may be detected in the left-hand arm (the other two are too badly eroded). There is a plain roundel at the intersection of the arms. The suggestion of a shaft may be the effect of relatively recent surface flaking, as it appears not to be present on James Ritchie’s photograph of 1906 (RCAHMS SC 676531).
Date: eighth century.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
