Description of stone
Event ID 1010266
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010266
Abernethy 6 (?St Bridget), Perthshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.66m, W 0.48m, D 0.10m
Stone type: yellow sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 1899 1639
Present location:
Evidence for discovery: found during grave-digging in churchyard and erected near the church in the later nineteenth century.
Present condition:
Description
This is described in ECMS as a rectangular slab incised with an equal-armed outline cross. In referring to Butler 1897, Allen appears to have conflated this slab with Abernethy 7.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References: Butler 1897, 237; ECMS pt 3, 341-2.
Compiled by A Ritchie