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Culross 1 Description of stone
Event ID 1029796
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1029796
Culross 1 (St Serf), Fife, cross-base fragment
Measurements: H 0.85m, W (incomplete) 1.16m at the base, 1.03m at the top, D 0.64 at the base, o.56m at the top.
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NS c 988 862
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1926 beside the church door. Culross 2 was soon afterwards cemented into its socket. Both were later taken into the church and now stand set into a large wooden log.
Present condition: battered and worn.
Description
This is perhaps two-thirds of the original base, which is a slightly tapering form with straight sides and a deeply chamfered top. The sides are plain apart from a deeply incised line along the sides and top of the three surviving sides, which creates a fat roll moulding at each corner. The chamfer bears traces of interlace ornament carved in relief. The socket in the top of the stone is 0.56m long, the incomplete width is 0.15m, and it is 0.13m deep.
Date range: eighth to tenth century.
Primary references: Douglas 1926, 68.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
