Description of stone
Event ID 1011769
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1011769
St Bride’s Chapel 1, Loch Lubnaig, Perthshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NN 5850 0981
Present location: set in a concrete block and built into the north wall of the burial ground, above a modern inscription recording its discovery.
Evidence for discovery: found in 1932 when the foundations of the chapel were uncovered.
Present condition: broken but the carving is clear.
Description
This triangular fragment has one intact edge, which suggests that it came from a relatively small slab. It is incised with a broad shallow groove with the left arm and central area of a cross, of which the left arm has a barred terminal.
Date: sixth to eighth century.
References: Morris 1934.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016.