Description of stone
Event ID 1009937
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1009937
Kilrenny 1 (Skeith Stone) (St Ethernan?), Fife, cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.12m above ground, W 1.02m, D 0.31m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 5708 0464
Present location: in field west of Kilrenny village, very close to its earlier location (it was moved in 1967).
Evidence for discovery: recorded by Stuart in1867.
Present condition: worn.
Description
One face of this massive slab is incised with an encircled cross-of-arcs accompanied by four external circular motifs. The equal armed cross consists of expanded arms, the spaces between which are each occupied by two sunken ovals with a raised area between them. A chi-rho hook has been argued to hang from the upper arm of the cross but this feature is controversial. The cross is encircled by three concentric incised lines, and the external circles consist of two to four incised lines.
Date: seventh century.
References: Stuart 1867, pl 124; ECMS pt 3, 374; Trench-Jellicoe 1998.
Complied by A Ritchie 2016
