Description of stone
Event ID 1010093
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010093
Cross Kirk 1, Peeblesshire, possible free-standing cross
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Place of discovery: NT 2506 4072
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: Fordun records the tradition that in 1261 ‘a magnificent and venerable cross’ was found lying on a stone inscribed ‘locus sancti Nicolai episcopi’, and that the Cross Kirk was built on the spot to commemorate it.
Present condition:
Description
There are no details of what was possibly an Anglo-Saxon high cross.
Date:
References: RCAHMS 1967, no 377.
ompiled by A Ritchie 2016
