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Edderton Description of stone
Event ID 1017541
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017541
Edderton 4, Ross & Cromarty, cross-slab fragments
Measurements: (before breakage) H 0.79m, W 0.28m, D 0.08m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NH 7193 8422
Present location: at Edderton Free Parish Church.
Evidence for discovery: found and photographed by the Rev Donald Macrae in 1903, but subsequently broken and later relocated amongst the broken gravestones in the ruined chapel in 1992 by Richard Easson and Douglas Scott.
Present condition: two large fragments have survived but they are very worn.
Description
These two fragments form the greater part of the lower portion of a rectilinear slab carved in relief on one broad face. The narrow flatband border appears to continue along the foot of the slab and may imply that it was a recumbent monument. Within the border there appears to have been a single panel of curvilinear ornament, including a fine two-cord spiral. These fragments have been reconstructed as part of the same slab as Edderton 2 by Ian G Scott, but, as Anderson observed, the right-hand margins do not match.
Date: ninth or tenth century
References: Anderson 1904, 41; Scott 2004.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
