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Description of stone
Date 11 May 2016
Event ID 1010293
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010293
Dunkeld 1, Perthshire, architectural fragment?
Measurements: L 1.1m, W 0.34m, H 0.57m
Stone type: grey sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 0104 4273
Present location: in the tower at Dunkeld Cathedral.
Evidence for discovery: found in the grounds of Dunkeld House in the mid nineteenth century, and moved around 1946 into the base of the tower at Dunkeld Cathedral.
Present condition: good.
Description
This is a substantial triangular block of stone, on one face of which, at the right-hand end, is incised a man on horseback carrying a spear and drinking from a horn. On the top face of the stone is a sunken equal-armed cross with expanded terminals, which was recorded by RCAHMS in 2012.
Date: ninth or tenth century.
References: Stuart 1867, pl 16; ECMS pt 3, 284-5; RCAHMS 1994, 96.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
