Following the launch of trove.scot in February 2025 we are now planning the retiral of some of our webservices. Canmore will be switched off on 24th June 2025. Information about the closure can be found on the HES website: Retiral of HES web services | Historic Environment Scotland
Description of stone
Event ID 1009924
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1009924
Dogton, Fife, cross-shaft in base
Measurements: shaft H 1.50m, W0.51m; base H 0.38m, W 1.07m, D 0.76m
Stone type: yellow sandstone
Place of discovery: NT 23609 96864
Present location: in situ.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded by Thomas Pennant in the mid eighteenth century.
Present condition: very weathered and damaged, now within an iron railing in the field boundary.
Description
Set in its original base, this is the shaft and part of the head of a once fine free-standing cross, carved in relief. Faces A and D are very defaced. On face C the head had a central boss and at the top of the shaft there are traces of a horseman with a spear. Face B bears a panel with two biting serpents knotted together.
Date range: eighth to tenth century.
References: Pennant 1772, pl 23; Stuart 1856, pl 53; ECMS pt 3, 364-5.
