Kilmory Description of stone
Date 7 September 2016
Event ID 1013843
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1013843
Kilmory, Rum, Skye & Lochalsh, cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.68m, W 0.26m tapering upwards to 0.13m, D 0.15m
Stone type: buff Torridonian sandstone
Place of discovery: NG 3613 0366
Present location: lying in the burial ground at Kilmory, on the west side of the Kilmory river.
Evidence for discovery: noted by Muir in the early 1880s already lying flat. The D-shaped burial ground has a raised interior, and there is a small stony mound nearby on which the slab may have stood.
Present condition: weathered.
Description
This tapering pillar is carved on both broad faces towards the top. On face A there is a cross-of-arcs within a circle, 0.19m in diameter, carved in low relief and defined by narrow roll mouldings. the circle is supported on a sunken shaft with an expanded top and triangular base. The stepped sunken base of a small incised Latin cross stands on top of the cross-of-arcs. On face C is a sunken Latin cross with a slightly expanded foot.
Date range: seventh or eighth century.
Primary references: Muir 1885, 83; Fisher 2001, 98-9.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
