North Berwick Description of stone
Date 24 August 2016
Event ID 1013446
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1013446
North Berwick, East Lothian, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.61m, W0.31m, D 0.09m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NT c 5465 8501
Present location: Coastal Communities Museum, North Berwick (ELMUS 387).
Evidence for discovery: found around 1895 buried near the site of the nunnery. It was displayed first in the grounds of The Lodge and later in the side-aisle of the ruined St Andrew’s Kirk on Kirk Ness (ID 56610), before being taken into North Berwick Museum sometime after 1957.
Present condition:
Description
This oblong slab is incised on both broad faces with an almost equal-armed outline cross containing an inner outline cross. The terminals of the upper and side arms protrude slightly from the edges of the slab, and on both faces an incised line forms a frame between the upper and side arms. Two parallel incised lines link the top of the upper arms on narrow face E with the side arms on narrow faces B and D.
Date range: eighth to tenth century.
References: Richardson 1907, 432-3.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
