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Description of stone
Event ID 1010267
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010267
Abernethy 7 (?St Bridget), Perthshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.66m, W 0.48m, D 0.12m
Stone type: red sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 1897 1643
Present location: Abernethy Museum Trust.
Evidence for discovery: found during grave-digging in Abernethy churchyard in 1894. It was later erected in the churchyard and later still placed in the church porch, still intact according to Butler.
Present condition: now broken into two fragments but cross intact.
Description
A simple rectangular slab with a cross carved in high relief. The cross has slightly expanded side-arms and upper arm.
Date: ninth or tenth century
References: Butler 1897, 237, pl 5; Proudfoot 1997, 50-1 (no 6).
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
