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Fortingall Description of stone
Event ID 1011943
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1011943
Fortingall 11 (Coeti of Iona), Perthshire, cross-incised slab
Measurements: H 0.44m, W 0.51m
Stone type: schist
Place of discovery: NN 7416 4701
Present location: re-used as a coping stone on the south churchyard wall.
Evidence for discovery: found in 2004 on the south churchyard wall.
Present condition: trimmed for re-use.
Description
One broad face is incised with a simple linear cross.
Date: seventh to ninth century.
References: DES 2004, 104-5; Halliday & Borland 2012.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
