LasswadeDescription of stone
Event ID 1009770
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1009770
Lasswade 1 (St Edwin), Midlothian, cross-arm fragment
Measurements: H 0.23m, W 0.28m, D 0.13m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NT 3017 6610
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (X.IB 21)
Evidence for discovery: found re-used in the ruins of the thirteenth-century church in or before 1867 when it was donated to the museum.
Present condition: broken and worn.
Description
This is most likely to have been the left-hand arm of a free-standing cross, ornamented in relief on the two main faces. It is of cusped and square-ended form. Within a plain flatband moulding, face A bears the hand of the crucified Christ with a nail through it, and face C contains an animal whose tail curves between its hind legs. Its head shows a round eye and triangular ear and an elongated tongue protrudes from its wide-open jaws.
Date: tenth or eleventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 423-4.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
