Lasswade Description of stone
Event ID 1009771
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1009771
Lasswade 2 (St Edwin), Midlothian, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.28m, W 0.41m, D 0.10m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NT 3017 6610
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (X.IB 20)
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 fragment of a larger slab is carved in relief on one face only with a panel containing a quadruped with long tail curving up and over its back. Behind it is part of a panel of diced work.
Date range: eleventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 423-4.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
