Chapel Stone Description of stone
Event ID 1020798
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1020798
Chapel Stone, Perthshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.22m, W 0.53m
Stone type: black slate
Place of discovery: NN 9153 5925
Present location: NN 9154 5924.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1912 and moved to beside the road around 1970. Traces of a ruined chapel are recorded up slope from the cross-slab.
Present condition: very weathered, especially the east face, and damaged at the top.
Description
Both broad faces of this slab are carved with a cross in relief, and the top of the stone has a pedimented shape. The side-arms and upper arms extend the full width and height of the slab, and the wide armpits have a double-cusped profile.
Date: tenth or eleventh century.
References: Reid 1912, 392-7.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
