Cross Sward Description of stone
Date 24 August 2016
Event ID 1013448
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1013448
Cross Sward, Pentland Hills, Midlothian, cross-base
Measurements: L 0.91m, W 0.86m, H 0.31m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NT c 188 609
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: recorded on Cross Sward, between East Kip and Scald Law, in the Statistical Account in 1794 but removed for re-use in a dyke before 1852.
Present condition:
Description
This was a rectangular stone, with a rectangular socket 0.33m by 0.25m and 0.23m deep.
Date range: uncertain.
References: OSA 1794 vol 10, 420.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
