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Description of stone
Event ID 1010075
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010075
Dail a’ Bhaile, Strathy, Sutherland, cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.39m, W 0.53m, D 0.20m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NC 8310 6494
Present location: in situ.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1900 (Munro 1900).
Present condition: weathered.
Description
An irregularly shaped slab now lying prone is carved in both false relief and incision with two crosses. The main cross is an incised outline cross with ball terminals to the arms and the shaft, and a central circle in the cross-head. This is itself outlined by a deep groove, giving the impression of relief carving. Beside the shaft on the left-hand side is a simple sunken equal-armed cross. Although there is some indication of the equal-armed cross on the drawing in Munro (1900, fig 1), it is not mentioned in the text, nor in ECMS (1903) or RCAHMS (1911), and there may be a possibility that it was added or ‘improved’ later in the twentieth century.
Date: early medieval.
References: Munro 1900; ECMS pt 3, 55 (Strathy); RCAHMS 1911, no 260.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
