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Weem 4 Description of stone

Event ID 1012866

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1012866

Weem 4 (St Cuthbert), Perthshire, stone basin

Measurements: W 0.68m by 0.61m, H 0.29m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NN 8429 4979

Present location: within Weem Old Parish Church.

Evidence for discovery: none.

Present condition: weathered.

Description

This roughly hexagonal basin or font has been carved from a boulder, with a hollow 0.39m across and 0.14m deep in which peck-marks are clearly visible.

Date: early medieval.

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Compiled by A Ritchie 2016

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