Stob Cross Description of stone
Event ID 1027349
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
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Stob Cross, Markinch, cross-slab
Measurements: H 2.27m, W 0.62m, 0.15m
Stone type: red sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 2960 0220
Present location: apparently in situ on a slope on the northern outskirts of Markinch.
Evidence for discovery: recorded and its base shored up in 1790 and sketched by James Drummond in 1859
Present condition: very weathered with badly damaged edges.
Description
This tall, and originally rectangular, slab stands on a small knoll, facing east/west. Each of the broad faces is carved in relief with a Latin cross, occupying the full width and height of the slab. It may have acted as a garth cross.
Date: early medieval.
References: Statistical Account 1794, vol 12, 552; RCAHMS 1933, no 423.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
