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Ellon Description of stone
Event ID 1018461
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018461
Ellon, Aberdeenshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.76m, W0.31m, D 0.20m
Stone type: reddish granite
Place of discovery: NJ 9588 3047
Present location: beneath the east window of Ellon parish church, forming part of the window sill.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1915, when it was built into the north-east wall of the church, on the right-hand side of a window. After alterations to the church it was built into the east wall.
Present condition: trimmed for re-use.
Description
This trimmed slab is incised with an outline cross with large barred terminals, of which only parts of the arms survive.
Date: seventh century.
References: Ritchie 1915.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
