Audits

Date May 2014

Event ID 1012328

Category Collections Managment

Type Audits

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1012328

NM 88266 34491 An assessment of this collection in May 2014 established that four of the five pieces in the collection form the sides of an elaborately decorated font, and the fifth is a broken quern.

The four stones curve across their width and together form the panels from a font. The outer faces are worked with a series of trefoiled finials set between miniature gabled buttresses. The backs of the stones are curved to follow the curve of the outer face, and are roughly finished. The font panels are described and illustrated in John Lewis, ‘Dunstaffnage Castle, Argyll and Bute: excavations in the N tower and E range, 1987–94.’

This and other inventories of carved stones at Historic Scotland’s properties in care are held by Historic Scotland’s Collections Unit. For further information please contact hs.collections@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Mary Markus - Archetype

(Source: DES)