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Description of stone
Event ID 1010095
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010095
Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, cross-shaft
Measurements: H 0.81m, W 0.36m, D 0.23m < 0.31m
Stone type: pale freestone
Place of discovery: NT 3320 3694
Present location: inside Innerleithen Church.
Evidence for discovery: found during demolition of the earlier church in 1871 in the foundations. The cross-base was found at the same time but was broken up. The shaft fragment was set up on a plinth in a garden in Innerleithen, before being moved first to stand outside the church and later within the church.
Present condition: broken at the top.
Description
This is the basal portion of a cross-shaft with very unusual ornament carved in relief. The edges are rounded and plain. All four faces bear variations on the same pattern of cup-shaped hollows surrounded by two concentric circles, the outer of which is linked by a bar to the next circle. Face A has three vertical rows of three or more linked circles, face B has two rows of two and three circles, plus an extra circle, face C has three rows of two and three circles, and face D has one row of more than two circles and one row of more than three circles.
Date: ninth or tenth century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 429-31; RCAHMS 1967, no 378.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
