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Description of stone
Event ID 1010121
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010121
Kilbreck, Sutherland, cross-incised standing stone
Measurements: H 1.17m, W 0.36m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NC 5932 3401
Present location: in situ.
Evidence for discovery: noted by Horsburgh sometime before 1867, though he mentions only the one standing stone.
Present condition: good.
Description
This is one of a pair of standing stones. It is incised with an outline cross with a long shaft, expanded wedge-shaped arms and rounded armpits.
Date: eighth to tenth century.
References: Horsburgh 1868, 271.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
