Raasay Description of stone
Date 7 September 2016
Event ID 1013875
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1013875
Raasay 4 (St Moluag), Kilmoluag, Skye & Lochalsh, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.39m, W 0.16m, D 0.03m
Stone type: red sandstone
Place of discovery: NG 5483 3663
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: found in St Molag’s burial ground in 1926.
Present condition:
Description
This cross-slab was so small as to be portable. It bore in low relief an equal-armed cross with semicircular armpits and a ring linking the ends of the arms.
Date range: seventh or eighth century.
Primary references: Fisher 2001, 104.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
