Description of stone

Event ID 1010065

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010065

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Cladh a Chnocain, Sutherland, cross-slab

Measurements: H 1.22m, W 0.48m

Stone type: schist

Place of discovery: NC 4393 0150

Present location: in the graveyard lying on a nineteenth-century grave.

Evidence for discovery: recorded in the 1900s in the graveyard, which is near the confluence of the Tutim Burn with the River Oykel.

Present condition: good.

Description

The slab bears a pecked outline cross with a long shaft and rounded armpits.

Date: eighth or ninth century.

References: RCAHMS 1911, no 93.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016