Description of stone
Date 18 May 2016
Event ID 1010490
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010490
Dunino 3, Fife, cross-incised rock face
Measurements: cross H c 2.0m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NO 5403 1088
Present location: in situ.
Evidence for discovery: recorded in 1979.
Present condition: top of cross weathered.
Description
A simple ringed linear cross incised into the rock face, with hollows at the intersections of the arms. It is remarkably large and finely executed, and there is no reason to doubt its early medieval date. It is likely that the rock face was originally protected by overhanging rock.
Date: early medieval.
References: DES 1979, 10
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
