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Inverness Description of stone
Event ID 1017596
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017596
Inverness 3, Broad Stone, Kingsmills, Inverness-shire, cross-base
Measurements: L 3.64m, W 1.97m, D more than 0.23m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NH 6729 4492
Present location: in a small modern enclosure on the north side of Kingsmills Road, possibly in situ.
Evidence for discovery: known since the 15th century and thought to be the base of a cross marking the burgh boundary.
Present condition: some edge damage.
Description
This very large horizontal slab has a rectangular sunken slot, measuring 1.2m in length and 0.24m in width (depth uncertain), which was possibly designed to take the shaft of a cross.
Date: twelfth century?
References: Mack 2007, 174-5.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
