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Abercorn Description of stone

Event ID 1011300

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1011300

Abercorn 4, West Lothian, cross-shaft fragment

Measurements: H 0.51m, W 0.28m, D 0.16m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NT 0814 7907

Present location: in museum at Abercorn Church.

Evidence for discovery: found in the churchyard sometime prior to 1903.

Present condition: worn.

Description

This is the lower part of a cross-shaft carved in relief on the two broad faces above a plain base. There are roll mouldings on the edges, with an inner roll moulding on the ornamented faces. Face A is carved with the lower part of a large panel of diagonal key pattern (ECMS type 95). Face B has a lower complete panel containing ten-cord plaitwork with breaks, while the surviving strip of the panel above has square key pattern. Faces B and D are carved with double-outlined plain panels.

Date: eighth century.

References: ECMS pt 3, 420; RCAHMS 1929, no 274, cross no 5.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016

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