Description of stone
Date 18 May 2016
Event ID 1010500
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010500
Fowlis Wester 3 (St Beanus), Perthshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NN 9281 2408
Present location: inside the church, clamped to the wall.
Evidence for discovery: found in 1927 during the restoration of the church, reused in the beam filling at the wallhead.
Present condition: broken but carving good.
Description
This fragment represents the central portion of a small cross-slab carved in relief. The slab is bordered by an ornamented moulding with interlace on the left-hand edge and key pattern on the right. The cross has rectangular terminals extending to the edges of the slab and rounded armpits, and the head appears to have been filled with uninterrupted interlace which tuns into diagonal key pattern when it reached the shaft. The background is plain.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: Waddell 1932.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
