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Description of stone
Event ID 1010278
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010278
Balquhidder 3, Perthshire, cross-slab
Measurements: L 1.66m, W 0.60m, D 0.09m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NN 5357 2091
Present location: recumbent in kirkyard south of the old church.
Evidence for discovery: despite the inaccurate drawing, this appears to have been the cross-slab seen by Stuart in the mid nineteenth century. The early cross-slab has been reused, perhaps in the eighteenth century, as a recumbent gravestone, with the addition of the incised initials R M and a pair of shears carved in relief.
Present condition: very worn
Description
The original cross-slab was carved in relief with an outline cross with small rounded armpits. Stuart’s drawing renders the cross as a linear cross with two bars.
Date: early medieval and later.
References: Stuart 1867, pl 68, no 7.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
