Description of stone
Event ID 1010120
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010120
Grumbeg 2 (St Martin), Sutherland, carved slab
Measurements: H 0.91m, W 0.25m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NC 6347 3837
Present location: in Strathnaver Museum at Creich?
Evidence for discovery: in 1909 the slab was recorded on the east wall of the graveyard. By 1961 it could not be found, but it was rediscovered sometime between 1970 and 1991.
Present condition: some flaking.
Description
One broad face of this slab has been deeply carved with wide pecked lines forming a rectangle subdivided into six irregular rectangles, possibly creating four conjoined crosses.
Date:
References: Baldwin 2000, xiv.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
