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Description of stone
Date 18 May 2016
Event ID 1010494
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010494
Dunning (St Serf), Perthshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.18m, W 0.48m, D 0.14m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 0190 1449
Present location:
Evidence for discovery: found in the later nineteenth century and recorded in ECMS as inside the church porch.
Present condition: one end broken and carving very worn.
Description
This slab may have been a recumbent gravestone with a cross at either end. Face A is carved with a ringed cross with small rounded armpits within a flatband border, and half of a similar cross exists at the other end. Narrow faces B and D bear a plait pattern.
Date: tenth century or later.
References: ECMS pt 3, 319.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
