Kinord Description of stone
Event ID 1022487
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
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Loch Kinord, Aberdeenshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.91m, W 0.94m, D 0.31m
Stone type: pink granite
Place of discovery: NO c 4400 9978
Present location: NO 4400 9978
Evidence for discovery: in the mid nineteenth century the stone stood ‘on an eminence’ on the north bank of Loch Kinord, but later that century it was taken to the grounds of Aboyne Castle and set up in a ‘small oak plantation’ (NO 5250 9898). In 1959 it was returned to approximately its original site beside Loch Kinord.
Present condition: damaged at the top and some edge-damage elsewhere,
Description
Roughly kite-shaped, this slab is carved in relief on one broad face with an elaborate ringed cross, which occupies most of the available space. The cross is outlined by a roll moulding, which extends into a spiral at each corner of the arm terminals and into a semi-spiral at the base of the shaft. The circular arm-pits are closed by arcs of a ring. The entire cross is filled with continuous interlace, which in the side arms conveys an impression of triquetra knots and in the upper arm forms four ring knots.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 13; ECMS pt 3, 194.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
