Hawkhill Description of stone
Event ID 1020792
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1020792
Hawkhill (Parkmill), Clackmannanshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 2.44m, W 0.80m, D 0.23m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NS 90133 92661
Evidence for discovery: first recorded by James Drummond in the mid nineteenth century. At the start of the century, roadworks revealed a short cist near the cross-slab, which was covered by a slab bearing a small incised cross at either end.
Present condition: very weathered.
Description
This tall slab bears a long-shafted cross on either side, created by a broad pecked groove, with sunken circular armpits. The side-arms extend to the sides of the slab in both cases, and the upper arm to the top of the slab on one side and terminating short of the top on the other.
Date: tenth or eleventh century.
References: NSA 1845, vol 8, Clackmannanshire 32; Drummond 1863, 86, 88; ECMS pt 3, 376-7.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
