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Description of stone
Date 2016
Event ID 1009756
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1009756
Thurso, St Peter’s Church 1, Caithness, cruciform slab with runic inscription
Measurements: H 0.84m, W 0.15m to 0.20m, D 0.04m
Stone type: Old Red Sandstone
Place of discovery: ND 1206 6861
Present location: Caithness Horizons, Thurso.
Evidence for discovery: found in April 1896 during demolition of houses near the E end of St Peter’s Church. It formed the cover slab of a stone cist containing a crouched inhumation. It was taken to Thurso Museum.
Present condition: damaged but the carving is clear.
Description
The slab is truncated at both ends. It has been dressed roughly into the form of a cross with very short side arms (less than 0.05m) and the runic inscription runs along the shaft towards the cross-head. The centre of the cross-head bears an incised linear cross. The inscription reads ‘(...) made this overlay after Ingulf his/her father’. The use of the term ‘overlay’ and the provenance of the slab are thought to indicate that it was designed to be a recumbent slab.
Date range: twelfth century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 36-7; Liestøl 1984, 228.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
