Description of stone

Event ID 1010243

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Abernethy 3 (?St Bridget), Perthshire, carved fragment

Measurements: H0.22m, W 0.34m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NO c18 16

Present location: unknown.

Evidence for discovery: found built into the gable wall of a cottage near the Council House in Abernethy in the nineteenth century.

Present condition:

Description

This was a trimmed fragment of a slab carved with diagonal key pattern.

Date: ninth or tenth century

References: ECMS pt 3, 310; Proudfoot 1997, 49.

Compiled by A Ritchie