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Monks Rig Description of stone
Date 24 August 2016
Event ID 1013449
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1013449
Monks Rig, Nine Mile Burn, Midlothian, cross-base
Measurements: L 0.97m, W 0.71m, H 0.38m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NT 1758 5919
Present location: on Monks Rig beside the footpath.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1794. The path was formerly known as the Monks’ Road, and in 1808 ‘the ornamented top’ of the cross was lying at the foot of the hill.
Present condition: worn, and there are usually coins left in the socket.
Description
This is a roughly dressed rectangular cross-base, with a rectangular hollowed socket, 0.51m by 0.31m and some 0.23m deep. It is quite plain but appears from the 1808 record to have held an ornamented cross.
Date range: uncertain.
References: OSA 1794 vol 10, 420; Coles 1899, 334-6.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
