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Borthwick Description of stone
Event ID 1009768
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1009768
Borthwick 3, Midlothian, cross-shaft fragment
Measurements: H 0.25m, W 0.41m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NT 3688 5963
Present location: set into the rear wall of Crookston House (NT 4256 5162) above the second-floor windows and to the left of an armorial panel.
Evidence for discovery: found in Borthwick churchyard and re-used when Crookston House was remodelled in 1860-4.
Present condition: broken and worn but the carving is still clear.
Description
This fragment is unlikely to have been part of the same cross-shaft as Borthwick 2, because it is made of a paler sandstone and, although it has the same cable moulding, it lacks the inner roll moulding. It comes from one of the broad faces of the shaft, and it is carved with interlace work incorporating a pair of large oval loops. The original shaft is likely to have been some 0.47m in width.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 421-3.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
