Abercorn Description of stone
Event ID 1011329
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1011329
Abercorn 10, West Lothian, fragment of grave-marker?
Measurements: H 0.64, W 0.38m, D 0.12m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NT 0814 7907
Present location: inside the church in the room beneath the Hopetoun Loft.
Evidence for discovery:
Present condition: the base, top and one narrow face are trimmed but the carving on the other narrow face is clear.
Description
Part of a rectangular slab carved with a roll moulding along both edges of face B with a small inner roll moulding on either side. Face A is otherwise plain but dressed smooth apart from a band of rough surface along the sinister edge. Within the frame formed by the roll moulding on face B is a three-strand interlace pattern, extending for about 0.23m, and the rest is plain. This slab appears to be an unfinished grave-marker.
Date: uncertain.
References: Aliaga-Kelly 1996, 411, fig PT 3.17.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
