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Description of stone

Event ID 1010276

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010276

Balquhidder 1, Perthshire, cross-slab

Measurements: L 1.69m, W 0.52m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NN 5357 2091

Present location: recumbent in kirkyard south of the old church.

Evidence for discovery:

Present condition: the lower part of face A has sheared off.

Description

This slab bears an incised linear cross with transverse bars across the arms and the lower part of the shaft.

Date: early medieval

References: Stuart 1867, pl 67, no 4; ECMS pt 3, 342.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016

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