Old Aberdeen Description of stone
Event ID 1022851
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022851
Old Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H H 0.72m, W 0.45m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NJ 9406 0946
Present location: in St Machars Cathedral.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1914, when it was built into a boundary wall in Don Street. It was removed and placed outside the east end of King’s College chapel, before being taken to St Machars. Its original findspot suggests that this location within a meander of the River Don was intentional.
Present condition: the slab appears to have been trimmed, but the carving is intact.
Description
On one broad face of this slab an outline cross is carefully and deeply incised. It has small, almost closed, circular armpits and a marked tenon.
Date: seventh century.
References: RCAHMS 2007, fig 7.11
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
