Rosemarkie Description of stone
Event ID 1021020
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1021020
Rosemarkie 14, Ross & Cromarty, recumbent gravestone fragment
Measurements: H 0.44m, W 0.30m +, D 0.14m
Stone type: pink sandstone
Place of discovery: NH 737 576
Present location: Groam House Museum, Rosemarkie (ROMGH.1998)
Evidence for discovery: found in a garden near the church in Rosemarkie in 1998.
Present condition: broken along three edges and worn.
Description
This is part of the right-hand side of a tapering recumbent gravestone, carved in relief with a roll moulding along the edge and two stylised plant forms springing from an inner raised band.
Date: fourteenth or fifteenth century.
References: Seright & Henderson 2013, 11.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
