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Publication Account
Date 1986
Event ID 1017463
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017463
Lonely sentinels over a remote moorland, this closely spaced pair of rough slabs now serves as a prominent landmark for travellers on the Southern Upland Way. Standing erect to heights of 1.88m and 1.58m, they each bear on the western face an incised Latin cross with tapered arms and, within the angles, four small crosses formed of intersecting lines. The larger crosses are of a style ascribable to the 7th-9th century AD, but the stones on which these Christian memorials have been carved are almost certainly of prehistoric origin.
Tradition asserts that there were once thirteen stones in the group, but just how many there may have been and whether they ever formed a circle has not been convincingly demonstrated.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Dumfries and Galloway’, (1986).
