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Balquidder Description of stone

Event ID 1014900

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1014900

Balquhidder 6, Perthshire, cross-slab

Measurements: H 1.41m, W 0.52m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NN 5357 2091

Present location: recumbent in kirkyard south of the old church.

Evidence for discovery: reported by Niall Robertson in 1991.

Present condition: worn and broken into two.

Description

The slab bears a pecked equal-armed crosslet set at an angle at the top left of the slab.

Date: early medieval?

References: DES 1991, 9 no 3.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016

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