Description of stone
Event ID 1009923
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1009923
Crail 2 (St Maelrubha), Fife, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.66m, W 0.32m, D 0.14m
Stone type: reddish sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 61339 07976
Present location: Crail Preservation Society Museum (1987.43).
Evidence for discovery: found behind no 8 Marketgait ‘some years’ before 1987 and thought to have been removed from the churchyard in order to re-use it as a window jamb stone.
Present condition: trimmed and worn.
Description
This fragment is part of a cross-slab which has been carved both in relief and in incision. In relief is an equal-armed cross within an incised circle, set on an incised shaft.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: DES 1987, 13.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
