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Ancrum Description of stone
Event ID 1009948
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1009948
Ancrum 1, Roxburghshire, fragment of panel
Measurements: H 256mm, W 315mm, D 75mm
Stone type: cream coloured Old Red Sandstone
Place of discovery: NT c629245
Present location: Jedburgh Abbey Museum, incorporated into the roof of the shrine reconstruction.
Evidence for discovery: the fragment was found in a garden near Ancrum in 1903 and brought to Jedburgh Abbey at an unknown later date. Its original provenance is unknown, although it may have come from the Old Ancrum churchyard to the north-west of Ancrum village.
Present condition: good
Description
This is a fragment from a panel, carved in relief with plaitwork and a plain border along one edge. There is no reason to associate it with the Jedburgh shrine panel, though it could have come from a shrine or chancel screen (Cramp 1983: 281).
Date: ninth century
References: Laidlaw 1905: no 10; RCAHMS 1956, 207-8; Cramp 1983: fig 120c.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
